You get to hike in and paddle out! Alaska Packraft School guides an overnight packraft trip through fabled Crow Pass, which includes 15 miles of hiking and 8 miles of rafting on Eagle River, for $600.

You may not think of blueberry picking when you think of Alaska, but the state is home to some delicious berries that you can pick for yourself.

Alaska Alaska towers over all the other states with its staggering number of lakes—around 3.2 million in total. This includes 3,197 officially named lakes and millions of unnamed ones.

Alaska's Koyukuk River was the site of an interesting discovery. During a float down the river, a group of University of Virginia professors spotted a woolly mammoth tusk along the riverbank.