Girdwood
Girdwood is a community in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, about 30 miles south of Anchorage town center, along the Seward Highway. It is home to Alaska's largest ski area, the Alyeska Resort, which was home to the 2007 US Alpine Ski Championships.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,070 residents
- Description: human settlement in United States of America
- Also known as: “Girdwood, AK”, “GIrdwood, Alaska”, “Girdwood, Anchorage, Alaska”, “Girwood”, and “Gridwood”
- Postal code: 99587
Places of Interest
Highlights include Girdwood Airport and Alyeska Resort.
Girdwood Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Girdwood Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three miles northeast of the central business district of Girdwood, in Anchorage Borough, Alaska, United States.
Alyeska Resort
Resort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Alyeska Resort is a ski resort in the Girdwood area of Anchorage, Alaska, approximately 30 miles from downtown Anchorage. Mount Alyeska is part of the Chugach mountain range and the Alyeska Resort is the largest ski area in the state.
Girdwood
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Anchorage, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.9632° or 60° 57′ 48″ northLongitude
-149.1337° or 149° 8′ 1″ westPopulation
2,070Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)IATA airport code
AQYUnited Nations Location Code
US GWKOpen location code
93GGXV78+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 150916963OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5862837Wikidata ID
Q3055477
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Girdwood” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Girdwood”
- Chinese: “格伍德”
- Chinese: “格德伍德”
- Chinese: “阿拉斯加州安克雷奇格伍德”
- Dutch: “Girdwood”
- French: “Girdwood”
- German: “Girdwood”
- Irish: “Girdwood”
- Italian: “Girdwood”
- Japanese: “ガードウッド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Girdwood”
- Norwegian: “Girdwood”
- Persian: “گیروود، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “گیروود، الاسکا”
- Persian: “گیروود”
- Romanian: “Girdwood”
- Russian: “Гирдвуд”
- Swedish: “Girdwood, Anchorage”
- Swedish: “Girdwood”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Girdwood”. Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.