Loved the halibut food trucks everywhere you go.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4818338&forum_id=2#45442223)

The food scene is great, and surprisingly not expensive. Salmon and halibut is 180 anywhere you go. There is a famous reindeer who is owned by a family and you can go by their house and see the reindeer in his little pen. The art museum is terrific, with lots of indigenous stuff and great landscape paintings. You can sometimes see Denali which is over 100 miles away. It stands out on clear days like a big bright mound of crystalline ice far off on the horizon. "The Wild" is right at your doorstep--you can feel it in every empty lot and street. People have engine warmers that they keep at the front of their car and they plug into an electrical socket at home to thaw out the engine sufficient to start it in the winter months. The daylight never ends in the summer too, and there's no reason not to do a hike at 10 pm if you've got the energy for it. The beer is good, and moose and caribou roam around by the lake and even come into people's yards. Moose get belligerent.

Lots of berries and roots grow on the tundra north of the city, and the views are tremendous. Eastern mountains are nothing compared to even the most mundane state parks outside of town.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4818338&forum_id=2#44895011)