Golf in Anchorage

Anchorage is Alaska's largest city and the commercial, medical, and transportation hub of the state, a metropolitan area that contains more than half of Alaska's total population in a bowl between the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet. The city's setting is extraordinary—the Chugach range rises immediately to the east, the tidal flats of Turnagain Arm lie to the south, and the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet borders the west and north. Golf in Anchorage is a genuine summer activity, concentrated in the months between May and September when the Chugach Mountains shed their snow and the extended daylight of Alaska's summer allows for evening rounds that defy the conventions of golf elsewhere. Two municipal courses and the military facilities at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson serve a city whose outdoor recreational culture spans activities from skiing to salmon fishing.