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Alaska 2008 Events CalenderWe don't have space to list them all - but these are the bigger events. |
| January | ||
| • | Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race – Kenai | |
| • | WinterFest at Alyeska Resort – Girdwood | |
| • | Annual Polar Bear Swim – Wrangell |
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| February | • | Annual Fur Rendezvous Winter
Carnival – Anchorage – Fur Rondy Info |
| • | Anchorage Festival of Music – Anchorage | |
| • | North Pole Sled Dog Championship– North Pole | |
| • | Festival of the North – Ketchikan |
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| March | • | Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – Anchorage – Iditarod Info |
| • | World Ice Art Championships – Fairbanks | |
| • | Nenana Ice Classic – Nenana | |
| • | Homer Winter Carnival – Homer | |
| April | • | Whale Fest – Kodiak |
| • | Alyeska Resort Spring Carnival – Girdwood | |
| • | Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra in Concert – Fairbanks. | |
| • | Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic – Fairbanks | |
| May | • | Copper River Delta Shorebird Festival – Cordova |
| • | Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival – Homer | |
| • | Kodiak Crab Festival – Kodiak | |
| • | Kachemak Bay Kayak Fest – Homer | |
| • | Salmon Derby – Petersburg | |
| • | Norwegian Independence Festival – Petersburg | |
| June | • | Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon – Anchorage |
| • | Anchorage Festival of Music – Anchorage | |
| • | Spirit Days– Anchorage. Alaska Natives celebrate their heritages. | |
| • | Summer Solstice - Statewide Every town has a festival, concert or race this weekend as the days reach their longest. | |
| • | Gold Rush Days – Juneau Alaska's capital city celebrates the gold strike of 1880. | |
| • | Arctic Thunder Air Show
- Anchorage www.elmendorf.af.mil |
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| July | • | Concert on the Lawn –
Homer More Info |
| • | Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow –
Fairbanks |
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| • | Girdwood Forest Fair –
Girdwood. Arts and crafts, music, food in this ski town south of Anchorage. – Fair Info |
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| • | July 4th Independence Day – Statewide |
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| • | Mount Marathon race –
Seward Racers go up a 3,022-foot mountain and back down. |
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| • | Moose Dropping Festival –
Talkeetna. Raucous party includes the Mountain Mother contest, a parade, the moose nugget (moose poop) toss game and a moose nugget dropping contest. |
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| • | Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow – Fairbanks | |
| • | World Eskimo-Indian
Olympics Fairbanks |
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| August | • | Whalefest: A Migration
Celebration Kodiak |
| • | Blueberry Arts
Festival – Ketchikan |
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| • | Golden North Salmon
Derby – Juneau |
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| • | Alaska State
Fair – Palmer |
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| • | Kodiak State Fair
and Rodeo – Kodiak |
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| September | • | Koniag's Kodiak Crab
Festival Memorial Day weekend – Kodiak |
| October | • | Mount Ballyhoo
Run – Unalaska |
| • | Bear Country Music
Festival – Kodiak |
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| November | • | Bald Eagle Festival – Haines – Festival Info |
| • | Annual Sitka Whalefest – Sitka |
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| December | • | Festival of
Lights – Wrangell |
| • | Annual Gallery
Walk – Juneau |
| Southeast Alaska • Ketchikan • Misty Fjords • Juneau • Mendenhall Glacier • Glacier Bay • Petersburg • Skagway • Sitka • Haines • Wrangell |
Gulf Coast • Whittier • Seward • Homer • Kenai • Kenai Fjords • Kenai River • Kodiak • Valdez |
Southcentral
• Anchorage • Potter Marsh • Portage Glacier • Girdwood |
Interior Alaska • Fairbanks • Talkeetna • Denali National Park |
Far North Alaska • Nome • North Pole • Barrow |
Southwest Alaska • Aleutian Islands • Katmai National Park • Dutch Harbor • More Towns and Cities |
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