The Northern Lights are a spectacular phenomenon that draws in people from far and wide to see them, and this Alaskan train ride offers the best view.

The Alaska Railroad’s Aurora Winter Train is running now through mid-May, offering weekend journeys between Anchorage and Fairbanks with stops including Wasilla and Talkeetna. In February and March ...

Winter lays a quiet shimmer across the far north, turning the landscape into a realm that feels untouched and impossibly vast ...

The Alaska Railroad had to cancel this weekend’s trains between Anchorage and Seward because of avalanche danger. In May. Sure, the weather’s been crazy this year, but I didn’t have a Mother’s Day ...

I took on one of the longest and most scenic train journeys possible - traveling from Miami all the way to Alaska by sleeper ...

Michael Portillo heads for the last frontier of the United States, armed with his 1899 Appleton’s Guidebook to Alaska. Beginning his journey amid the snow-capped mountains and ice-cold inlets of the ...