Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Anchorage
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Anchorage? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — "Spen" — the Spam Can & Raven Sculpture, Anchorage Lightspeed Planet Walk (the hunt for Pluto), Sky Harbor Airpark and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Anchorage they'd never find on their own.
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"Spen" — the Spam Can & Raven Sculpture
A giant cast-bronze Spam can with a raven perched on top, planted along Spenard Road by artist John Coyne as…
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Anchorage Lightspeed Planet Walk (the hunt for Pluto)
A scale-model solar system where one walking step equals the distance light travels in a second. The Sun and…
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Sky Harbor Airpark
What looks like an ordinary gravel road running alongside Cange Street in South Anchorage is actually a funct…
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Spenard's Neon Palm Tree
A 33-foot steel palm tree — neon-originally, now LED-lit — stands on a gravel corner in Spenard, the last art…
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Flying Crown Airpark
Most neighborhoods have streets. Flying Crown has a runway. Built in the 1950s and quietly swallowed by the c…
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Gravity Hill
On a quiet residential stretch of Upper Huffman Road in the Hillside neighborhood, there's a spot where the l…