Rooms for rent around Anchorage, AK

Anchorage is the largest city of the State of Alaska, it is the most northern of big cities in the US. The population of Anchorage is estimated 298,192 people by 2016. In total around Anchorage, 374.000 people live that makes more than a half of the total number of inhabitants of Alaska, about 700.000 people. Anchorage is in own way the unique city from all directions surrounded with national parks. The city is kind of squeezed between two sleeves of Cook Inlet and slopes of Chugach Mountains and in fact, represents the largest human enclave in the huge natural territory of Alaska. Anchorage - the most convenient point from where it is possible to go to a travel on different reserves of Alaska. But in only several kilometers from the downtown, you can face scenes of the wild nature, rarer than it is possible to see in most national parks. The majority of settlements in Alaska have appeared around fishing crafts or places where extracted minerals. There is neither that nor another in Anchorage. Perhaps, no city here would also exist if in 1914 this place isn't chosen for construction of the railroad. Anchorage has received the city status by 1920th year and in the next years quickly grew and developed. Besides the railroad air transportation actively developed, the military has strongly located in the region. In 1951 the main airport of Alaska was built - the International airport of Anchorage of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Today it is one of the most loaded airports in the world on the volume of a cargo transportation. This results from the fact that through Anchorage there passes the cargo message between the US and Asia, besides the airport is plentifully supplied with aviation fuel from the oil processing enterprises on Alaska. Directly the tenth part of the population of the city is employed in the airport and at the works connected with his functioning approximately. Besides railway and the air, port plays an important role in the economy of the region also port through which 95% of all goods arriving in Alaska unload on it. Tourism also plays an important role in the economy of the region.