People have lived in Healy for a long, long time. In fact, archeologists from the University of Alaska have dated sites of previous habitation in the Healy area at 12,000 years old. One site located up Dry Creek, off the Parks Highway, has yielded evidence of stone tools and herding animals which became extinct at the end of the last ice age... click to read more

Cantwell was named after an army lietenant who surveyed the area around the Cantwell River, the former name of the Nenana River. The first people to use the Cantwell area were hunting parties of Athabaskan Indians. Many relatives of these Native Alaskans still reside in Cantwell today. The coming of the railroad in 1916 made way for a population growth... click to read more

The village of Nenana (nee NA' nah) was a polular fishing and hunting area for untold generations of Athabascan Indians. Nenana translates to mean "a good place to camp between two rivers." Nenana sits at the junction of the Nenana and the Tanana rivers... click to read more

It has the feel of a road to nowhere, a hard surface road that turns west from the Parks Highway at mile 283.5, though signs direct one to Clear and Anderson. Clear is an Air Force missile detection station that has been in existence for 40 years. Anderson, tucked back in the spruce and aspen woods near the Nenana River, soon followed when Art Anderson and three others homesteaded and began subdividing their acreage... click to read more

Talkeetna is a one-of-a-kind town with much to offer travelers of all types. Whether you arrive by plane, train, or automobile you will not be sorry you put Talkeetna on your Alaska itinerary. Once you actually arrive, the best mode of transportation is on foot. A walk through Talkeetna is like going back in time. There are 13 buildings in the downtown area that are on the National Register of Historic Places... click to read more