Project Documents

Project Summary

Seven (7) miles of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail will be getting a surface make-over this summer between mile post 6.6 and 2nd Avenue! The trail WILL BE CLOSED in phases during construction. Please refer to the Trail Closure Construction Schedule for more information. Parks & Recreation will regularly post alternate travel routes and construction updates on Facebook and Twitter.

The rehabilitation of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail is funded in part by a grant from the Anchorage Park Foundation and the Municipality Of Anchorage 2012 Bond Funds. In 2011 a one-mile segment of the trail was successfully resurfaced just south of Point Woronzof. The 2013 project is a continuation of a multi-year effort by Parks and Recreation to rehabilitate the popular trail. Included in the rehabilitation will be repairing several longitudinal cracks or “crevasses” that present hazards to all trail users, including bicyclists, walkers, runners and in-line skaters. Bridges will also be resurfaced and repaired as necessary.

Access during construction

For safety reasons, there will be no access on the closed sections during construction. Portions of the trail are somewhat isolated, not connected to major roadways or transportation corridors. This circumstance along with its proximity to the airport runway, AWWU’s water treatment facility, the bluff, and the Alaska Railroad Corporation, poses significant detour challenges. During the phased summer-long closure, Parks & Recreation asks that recreational trail users utilize a different Municipal trail and that trail commuters employ an alternate route.

Significant trail events such as the Alaska Run for Women (June 8, 2013), the Mayor’s Marathon (June 22, 2013) and the Big Wild Life Runs (August 18, 2013) will be accommodated during the phased construction process. Event coordinators are encouraged to contact Parks and Recreation prior to their scheduled event to verify trail status and route. This construction project presents a temporary inconvenience to all users, but the trail surface improvements accomplished will benefit our community for many years. As mentioned above, we will be posting alternate routes and construction updates on Facebook and Twitter; for additional assistance contact (907)-343-4135.

The festival is a great opportunity to bask in the sun and to watch and participate in fun events! The Hero Games is a hit to watch, being a friendly competition between Alaska’s first responders charging through obstacle courses, bucket brigades and different relays.

Kids of all ages always enjoy the Children’s Rainbow Factory, which includes puppet shows, a kayak pool, and giant sandbox, just to name a few!

The Teen Pro Skateboarding Demo is a thrill to watch, showcasing demonstrations from professional skate boarders and local team members. The demonstrations show skateboarders leaping, spinning and jumping on obstacles created by Zak’s Boardroom!

These events and many more fun activities will be featured during this festival. Come to downtown Anchorage on June 22 to experience one of the best summer festivals of the summer!

Join us from 5:00 – 8:00pm every Friday night from June 7th – August 2nd this summer in Town Square Park for Live After Five! This fun, annual, FREE event features good eats from Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse, a beer & wine sponsored by the Odom Corporation, and live music from local & out-of-state artists! The 2013 series starts June 7th!!

Live After Five is a weekly Friday night concert series held each summer in Town Square Park. This fun event is a perfect gathering place for you and your friends after work. Come downtown, enjoy the outdoor seating and tables, kick back with your beverage of choice, and soak in the summer fun. These concerts are guaranteed to start your weekend right.

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Join us during lunch in downtown Anchorage for the Music in the Park concert series 12 noon-1:00pm in Peratrovich Park (4th & E St.) every summer.

For up to date information on each concert or possible rain cancellations, Visit our Facebook page daily!

The 2013 season starts June 5th!! Below are the dates & schedule of performers!

Hope to see you there!

Questions? Please call ADP at 279-5650

Bring the kids downtown for a dancing good time every Music for Little Ones, every Monday at noon in Peratrovich Park (4th Avenue and E Street.) Sing and dance along with Fiddle De Dee at these fun, free concerts. Enjoy one hour of interactive fun with the kids! The 2013 season starts June 3rd!!

Fostering the flower baskets costs $300, and represents the total cost of planting, growing and maintaining these two baskets. Donors are rewarded for their contribution with a metal plaque custom printed with their name or business on one of the downtown poles. By fostering the flower baskets, we can ensure the future of the “City of Flowers” program while bringing color and beauty to our streets.

To Foster A Flower, please contact ADP Community Services at 279-5650 or download the application form below. Contributions to the ADP Community Services are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Federal Tax ID#73-1665266

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This fun-filled festival features live music, VIP wine tasting, wine garden, photo booth, art fair, master gardeners, garden tours and flower power gardening sale! Don’t miss out on this one day celebration at the Festival of Flowers each summer in Town Square.

When: June 1st
Where: Town Square
Time: 11am – 6pm (VIP Wine Tasting 12noon – 2pm)

Also be sure to purchase your downtown hanging baskets!

Can’t make it? Donate online!

If you can’t make it to the Festival of Flowers, you can still support the “Flower Endowment Fund” to help ensure that our City of Flowers blooms each and every year. Donations can be made via our secure PayPal donation site, just click the button below:

VIP Wine Tasting Event

Join us for a special VIP wine tasting in the heart of beautiful Town Square Park! As part of the fundraising efforts for the “Festival of Flowers,” we’ve partnered with Crush Wine Bistro and Cellar to offer guests a garden wine tasting curated by Crush owner and Sommelier Chad Culley.

Enjoy five (5) delicious wines, all picked specially for this event by Chad. He’s picked some unforgettable whites, reds and rose’s showcasing aromas and flavors of flowers and spice.

And what goes better with wine than sweet, delicious cupcakes? We’v epartnered with BabyCakes Cupcakes to provide tasty treats to accompany the wines!

All of the proceeds from this event go toward the flower endowment fund that will help to ensure that Anchorage remains the City of Flowers!

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The smell of Samovar tea fills the Kobuk Coffee Company. Visitors are invited to try a sample of tea as they explore the hidden treasures throughout the store.

Kobuk Coffee Company is located in the historic Kimball Dry Goods building at 5th Avenue and E Street. The shop specializes in coffee, tea and china.

You can purchase a wide variety of teas in bags or loose leaf form and they have quite a selection of fine china to serve your tea as well as enjoy drinking it.

The store has a wonderful collection of old fashioned candy.

For me the real treasure is hidden in the back of the store. Here you will find the bake shop.

I believe the old fashioned donuts from Kobuk Coffee Company are the best I have ever eaten. As someone with a sweet tooth I will say I haven’t had anything from this shop that wasn’t amazing.

Fresh soup is made daily and you can pick up simple sandwiches here also.

Oh! The cookies, the cakes, the lemon meringue…but the old fashioned donuts will always hold a special place in my stomach.

Kobuk Coffee Company also offers an old fashion tea party. It is recommended reserve for this special event at least two weeks in advance.

This is the full deal! Cucumber sandwiches and scones. Actually you can pick from a variety of sandwich choices and can even get them cut in shapes to go with a theme if you like.

You can also choose from a variety of desserts and can pick a theme.

Of course they use the fine linens and the best china for such a party.

You can visit Kobuk Coffee Company on the web, but you really want to stop by the shop and take in the wonderful aroma of tea and fresh things baking.

Kobuk Coffee Company is on the corner at 5th and E Street.

7th Ave. btwn. F St. and G St.

D St. btwn. 4th Ave. and 5th Ave.

F St. btwn. 4th Ave. and 5th Ave.

H St. btwn. 7th Ave. and 8th Ave.

K St. btwn. 4th Ave. and 5th Ave.

Please watch for pedestrians and follow detour routes.

Information: Logistics, 276-6060

As someone who limits herself to sewing on buttons, but only in an emergency, I am always impressed with people who can sew.

Quilted Raven is like visiting a beautiful foreign country. I don’t speak the language, but with art you don’t have to speak the language to appreciate the value.

I love that local artists have created quilt patterns that can be purchased. There are also fabrics created by local artists.

A lot of amazing and fun stuff for quilt makers and quilt maker admirers.

Now Quilted Raven has expanded! The added space is adding yarn. Not your average yarn, but unique yarn in amazing colors and materials.

Did you know the Alaska Zoo sells camel hair yarn?! It was much softer than I expected camel hair to be.

The variety of yarn is astounding!

There are also a lot of fun buttons. It made me think I might be willing to just sew buttons on things for fun.

Quilted Raven is located on G Street between 4th and 5th Avenues. Visit the Quilted Raven website or friend them on Facebook.

OPERATOR: Alaska Native Heritage Center
DATES: May 3rd thru June 20th & August 12th thru September 2nd
HOURS: 10:05am | 11:05am | 12:05pm | 2:05pm

OPERATOR: Alaska Native Heritage Center
DATES: June 21st thru August 11th
HOURS: 9:05am | 10:05am | 11:05am | 12:05p, | 2:05pm

OPERATOR: Anchorage City Trolley Tours
DATES: May 4th thru May 31st & September 1st thru September 25th
HOURS: HOURLY 9:00am – 5:00pm

OPERATOR: Anchorage City Trolley Tours
DATES: June 1st thru August 31st
HOURS: EVERY HALF HOUR 9:00am – 4:00pm | 5:00pm | 6:00pm | 7:00pm

OPERATOR: The Ulu Factory
DATES: May 25th thru September 2nd
HOURS: ON THE :15 AND :45 OF EACH HOUR 10:15am – 6:15pm

OPERATOR: Salmon Berry Tours
DATES: May 3rd thru September 25th
HOURS: 12:45pm

OPERATOR: The Alaska Zoo
DATES: May 15th thru May 31st
HOURS: ON THE :40 OF EACH HOUR 9:40am – 3:40pm

OPERATOR: The Alaska Zoo
DATES: June 1st thru September 20th
HOURS: ON THE :40 OF EACH HOUR 9:40am – 6:40pm

OPERATOR: Alaska Latin Tours
DATES: May 24th thru September 19th
HOURS: 12:00pm

Arctic Flight A Century of Alaska Aviation shows the deep connection Alaskan’s have with flight. This wonderful exhibit has something for everyone.

The history of flight in Alaska is long and storied. Many brave pilots gave everything to get Alaskan’s to their destination or to deliver their supplies and mail.

This exhibit includes a full size Stearman biplane and many examples of the kinds of equipment pilots used. From tundra wheels to flight suits and survival kits you will find all kinds of history.

This exhibit is co-curated with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and includes objects from several Alaskan museums. The Smithsonian has a wonderful write up about the exhibit which is linked to the Anchorage Museum Facebook page.

Current exhibits also include Portrait Alaska. A series of portraits by Alaskan photographer Clark Mishler who set out to take a portrait a day. After four years of taking photos of people he randomly encountered this exhibit shows the diversity and character of Alaskans.

As a long time Alaskan it was fun to recognize some of the people and to see the variety of things Alaskans enjoy. It was like looking through a family album. Some of those family members are familiar and others are doing things that are familiar. I recognize the connection if not the face.

Mishler has a gift for bringing out the personality and relationships among those he photographs. It is a wonderful collection.

In addition to many wonderful rotating and permanent exhibits the museum hosts an array of activities for all ages. Check out the Museum website or their Facebook page to keep up on what is happening each week.

Anchorage is lucky to have such an amazing museum. Take time to visit the museum on C Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.

Summer hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Below is a calender to view and/or download to keep a record of all of ADP’s summer events for the 2013 season!

Additional information regarding various bands and other activities that will be featured at these events can be found on this website and/or ADP’s Facebook Page.

Please also refer to ADP’s Facebook page for daily updates on rain cancellations and rescheduling!

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