Part of the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Winter Carnival, this February 20 race's staging area is on Fourth Avenue. View a photo of it.

Photos show the ceremonial start in Anchorage of this famous race on March 6, 1999, and the real start on the way to Nome from Wasilla.

Photos show downtown Anchorage on Christmas Day in 1998, taken by a visitor from California.

Admire the pink cast of the mountains in the background, one of Alaska's special winter features, in two February 1999 photos.

On an October day in 1997, this Web cam captures Fourth Avenue in the last hours of daylight.

Witness the excitement of this race in February of 1999, and watch the action change over time.

View the beauty of Alaska from various perspectives in these enlargeable photos taken by visitors to the area.

See the various changes in light over time, as the Web cam captures a snowy morning on Fourth Avenue in October of 1997.

Taken in August, this photo proves that Anchorage has sunny days like those in other, more southerly US cities.

View a photo of a typical winter day in Anchorage, taken in January 1998, with snow in the lower right corner.

Get the current live view of the Chugach Mountains from this webcam.