Entry No. 27 — the Anchorage file — filed under: oddities

Alaska Fur Exchange

A fur-trading shop that doubles as a walk-in cabinet of curiosities: stacks of antlers, mastodon bones, mounted specimens, and hides crammed alongside the knickknacks. It reads more like a natural-history vault than a store.

The move: Wander the stacks of furs, antlers, and mastodon bones together, run your hands over the hides, and pick out one small bone-or-fur oddity to take home.

📍 Before you go It sits at the corner of Old Seward Highway and Tudor Road in midtown strip-commercial territory — drive, and use the store's own lot out front (lot and entrance are both wheelchair accessible). You will know the right door by the wall of mounted animal heads in the entryway. The shelves run far deeper than the thin online inventory suggests, so budget real browsing time; Sundays have historically been spotty outside summer, so weekdays are the safer pattern. Pair it with Arctic Roadrunner a half mile south on Old Seward, a 1960s cash-only burger landmark on the bank of Campbell Creek.

• 📍 South Anchorage / Old Seward Hwy
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 4417 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99503

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3

last checked: 2026-06-09