Sports in Alaska

The following is a list of sporting venues, events, and teams based in Alaska.

Anchorage

An Aces game at "The Sully"

Alyeska Resort
Chugach State Park, a 495,000-acre (2,000 km²) high alpine park.^[1]
Anchorage has a large number of groomed cross-country skiing trails within the urban core. There are 105 miles (169 km) of maintained ski trails in the city,^[2] some of which reach downtown.^[3]
Mulcahy Stadium
Sullivan Arena

Great Alaska Shootout, an annual NCAA Division I basketball tournament^[4]
Sadler's Ultra Challenge wheelchair race between Fairbanks and Anchorage^[5]
The Tour of Anchorage is an annual 50-kilometer (31 mi) ski race within the city.^[6]
World Eskimo Indian Olympics

Dog mushing is arguably the most popular spectator sport in Alaska

↑ Guide to the State Parks of the United States-2nd Edition. Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society. 2004. pp. 340–342. ISBN 0-7922-6628-5.
↑ "Trails". Parks and Recreation. Municipality of Anchorage. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
↑ "Tony Knowles Coastal Trail". Alaska Trails. State of Alaska. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
↑ "Great Alaska Shootout". Anchorage: 100 years of big wild life. Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
↑ Pedeferri, Tony (18 October 2012). "Alaska Race will Return in 2013". US Handcycling - News. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
↑ "Tour of Anchorage". Anchorage: 100 years of big wild life. Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
↑ Pedeferri, Tony (18 October 2012). "Alaska Race will Return in 2013". US Handcycling - News. Retrieved 25 February 2014.

Sports teams based in Alaska

Baseball	ABL: Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks Anchorage Bucs Anchorage Glacier Pilots Mat-Su Miners Peninsula Oilers Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks

Hockey	ECHL: Alaska Aces NAHL: Fairbanks Ice Dogs Kenai River Brown Bears

College athletics	NCAA Division II Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks

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Territories	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

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State of Alaska

Juneau (capital)

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Regions	Alaska Peninsula Aleutian Islands Arctic The Bush Inside Passage Interior Kenai Peninsula Mat‑Su Valley North Slope Seward Peninsula Southcentral Southeast Southwest Tanana Valley Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta

Largest cities	Anchorage Badger Barrow Bethel Dillingham Fairbanks Homer Juneau Kenai Ketchikan Kodiak Kotzebue Nome Palmer Petersburg Seward Sitka Soldotna Unalaska Valdez Wasilla

Boroughs	Aleutians East Anchorage Bristol Bay Denali Fairbanks North Star Haines Juneau Kenai Peninsula Ketchikan Gateway Kodiak Island Lake and Peninsula Matanuska‑Susitna North Slope Northwest Arctic Petersburg Sitka Skagway Wrangell Yakutat Unorganized

Census Areas	Aleutians West Bethel Dillingham Hoonah–Angoon Kusilvak Nome Prince of Wales–Hyder Southeast Fairbanks Valdez–Cordova Yukon–Koyukuk

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