In 2013, Elon University added an internship in Alaska to its StudyUSA program. From Elon’s website: GBL 255/ENG 255-US (4 credit hours) This is a hybrid course begins online June 1, 2017 and goes on-location in Alaska (begins in Anchorage, Alaska June 12, 2017). This course fulfills either the Literature or Society requirement and, when […]
Trips
Noatak
The town of Noatak is located on the Noatak River, a just west of the Noatak National Preserve.
Kenai Peninsula Hike, Paddle & Tour (11 days)
Click here for the 7-day journey The Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska is an area where humans and wildlife have co-existed for thousands of years. The region is topographically and geologically diverse with tall mountains, broad valleys, rolling foothills, turquoise-colored lakes and rivers, ice fields, glaciers, northern boreal forests, coastal wetlands and near-shore and […]
Kenai Peninsula Hike, Paddle & Tour (7 days)
Click here for the 11-day journey The Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska is an area where humans and wildlife have co-existed for thousands of years. The region is topographically and geologically diverse with tall mountains, broad valleys, rolling foothills, turquoise-colored lakes and rivers, ice fields, glaciers, northern boreal forests, coastal wetlands and near-shore and […]
Denali Interior Hike, Paddle & Tour
The Alaskan interior is dominated by the Alaska mountain range. The entire region shows evidence of a time when glaciers covered everything. Today, broad river valleys, rolling foothills and the great northern boreal forest of spruce, birch and willow trees cover the landscape. Crystal clear streams with their payload of salmon, rainbow trout, arctic grayling […]
Caribou Hills Dog Mushing In Coho & Ninilchik
The Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska is an area where humans and wildlife have co-existed for thousands of years. The region is topographically and geologically diverse with tall mountains, broad valleys, rolling foothills, turquoise-colored lakes and rivers, ice fields, glaciers, northern boreal forests and coastal wetlands. The vast resources of the Peninsula, both living […]
Arctic Circle Hot Springs Cross-Country Skiing & Dog Sledding
The interior of Alaska is part of the great northern boreal forest that circles the entire globe. This area is home to indigenous people known as Athabascans. For thousands of years, their subsistence life style was in harmony with the wilderness. The land, water and wildlife provided them with the essentials for survival. During the […]
Yukon River Canoeing
The Yukon River originates in Canada and flows all the way through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Approximately 2,000 miles in length, this broad, flat and fast river is the third longest river in North America. Our trip begins near the United States-Canada border at the small town of Eagle, Alaska. […]
