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Fishing planet alaska midnight salmon9/17/2023 Road trippers rejoice as the Top of the World highway opens for traffic, music lovers descend on Anchorage for the Spenard Jazz Fest, and magic unfolds at the Midnight Sun Festival in Fairbanks.īy July, most trails are accessible, migrating salmon attract humongous bears to riverbanks in Katmai National Park and Kodiak Island, and the fishing season is in full swing. Most trails are snow free by June, and Denali National Park opens its main road to buses. Big events like the Kodiak Crab Festival and the Little Norway Festival in Petersburg in May draw cruise-ship crowds in and herald the start of the summer. This is the season when almost everything is open – from national park visitor centers to ice cream vendors – and the wildlife is at its most active. Not surprisingly, over 85% of Alaska’s annual visitors arrive between May and September, a large portion of them on cruise ships whose sailings coincide with the warmer weather. You can hike late into the evening (the sun never sets in the far north), bask in surprisingly balmy temperatures, and enjoy the state’s greatest feature – its spellbinding wilderness – without having to worry about aggressive snowstorms, inaccessible backcountry, and shuttered facilities. Summer is the best all-around season to visit Alaska. Grizzly bears arrive at Brooks Falls in June and July to fish for salmon © oksana.perkins / Shutterstock May to September is the best time for wildlife viewing
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