Log Cabin Visitor Information Center, Anchorage, Alaska

Downtown Anchorage at the corner of 4th Avenue and F Street you will find this log cabin with a sod roof beside the Old City Hall. It is the Log Cabin Visitor Information Center. Outside the center is a sign giving directions to various cities and a 4,114-pound jade boulder put on display by Stewart's Photo Shop, across the street. Here you are in the center of the main tourist and shopping area of the city.

If you can spare a couple of hours I recommend you step inside and get the brochure which will lead you on a walking tour of downtown Anchorage, and past many of the city's attractions and points of interest. It will be time well invested in getting an overview of what Anchorage has to offer.

Anchorage is roughly equidistant from three of the world's major markets: New York, London and Tokyo, making it a strategic location for international air commerce.It is also interesting to note that Anchorage shares a similar latitude with Stockholm, Sweden and St. Petersburg, Russia, and a similar longitude with other regions explored by Captain James Cook, including Tahiti, Hawaii and the Cook Islands.

The signpost pictured below is in front of the Log Cabin Visitor Information Center in downtown Anchorage, gives the distance to major cities in Alaska and around the world.