Anchorage City of Flowers - Downtown
The blue and gold flowers of the approximately 100,000 hanging flower baskets represent the colors of the Municipality of Anchorage, the State of Alaska and the state flag.
Downtown Sites
Log Cabin and Downtown Anchorage Visitor Centers
The cabin's sod roof grows jacobs ladder and wild onions. Its entrance features several flower varieties that continue along a path in front of Historic City Hall to the park at E Street and Fourth Avenue.
Stroll along any of the sidewalks between Second and Sixth Avenues to enjoy the 425 baskets of gold triploid marigold drenched with trailing sapphire lobelia - see why garden writers call Anchorage the "Hanging Basket Capital of the World?" The blue and gold flowers represent the colors of the Municipality of Anchorage, the State of Alaska and the state flag.
Town Square Municipal Park
Adjacent to the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and one of the city's largest planting areas with 15 beds and
more than 9,000 plants.
Delaney Parkstrip
Between Ninth and Tenth Avenues from A to P Street, features 150 fragrant tea rose bushes in Centennial Rose Garden and another 4,000 dazzling annuals scattered throughout the park.
Anchorage Museum
Seven beds containing 3,000 vibrant flowering plants surround the museum, located at Seventh Avenue and A Street.
Print an Anchorage Downtown Walking Tour Map to locate these spots, and many more Anchorage points of interest.
