For Dr. John Cullen, work days at his Valdez, Alaska, medical practice are highly unpredictable. Winter is brutal in Valdez, a town of 4,000 people located about a six-hour drive from Anchorage.

You could make a case that Valdez, Alaska, is the most beautiful town ... fishing and cruising boats are docked at the marina for the winter. The salmon fishermens mess halls and bunk houses ...

Marcus Garcia The methodic thud of steel on ice rings through the snow-draped walls of Keystone Canyon, a serpentine gash just east of Valdez, Alaska. Most winter days, the tiny coastal town of ...

Alaska. Black Ops Valdez, Monday, December 12, 2022, Press release picture The Chugach Mountains, which surround the Valdez area, receive huge dumps of maritime snow every winter, which is ...

June marks the thaw and breakup season for most of Alaska. Though unusual, June snowfall is not unprecedented in the Brooks ...

Valdez, about 300 road miles east of Anchorage, is the maritime shipping hub for Alaska's aging North Slope ... The sales could supplement the resort in winter as tourism slows, he said.

As for smaller towns, the snowiest is Valdez, Alaska, (pop. roughly 4,000), according ... state averages about 56 feet of snow per winter, which is among the highest annual totals in the world.