Best of Instagram: Alaska through the lens

Alaska is almost more famous for what it doesn’t have. To a wi-fi addicted world it offers nature free from McDonalds, shopping centres, traffic jams, fads and fashions. It’s pretty much the reason they had to invent a word for ‘wilderness’.

And thanks to a northerly latitude, in the summer months locals and travellers get 20 darkness-free hours a day to hike in Wrangell-St Elias, bike trails in Tongass National Forrest, kayak the Inside Passage and…take killer Instagram shots. I feel like Alaska tourism board should get a 5% Instagram royalty, because the state’s pine-covered hills, rugged granite peaks and electric blue glaciers have inspired an entire movement of artistic expression: carefully filtered adventurousness. Need a reason to travel to America’s frozen north? Here are the best Alaskan Instagram pics going around.

A photo posted by Brian Doyle (@briandoylephoto) on Mar 16, 2016 at 5:54pm PDT

A photo posted by Adventure Destinations 🙏🏼 (@destination_wow) on Mar 30, 2016 at 9:27am PDT

A photo posted by Nathaniel Wilder (@wilderphoto) on Mar 30, 2016 at 12:07pm PDT

A photo posted by Big Outdoors (@bigoutdoors) on Mar 30, 2016 at 2:52pm PDT

A photo posted by Tom Bol (@tombolphoto) on Mar 30, 2016 at 1:46pm PDT

A photo posted by Blue Ice Aviation (@blueiceaviation) on Mar 30, 2016 at 4:52pm PDT

A photo posted by Whit Richardson Photography (@whitphotography) on Mar 30, 2016 at 5:31pm PDT

A photo posted by State of Alaska tourism office (@travelalaska) on Jan 21, 2016 at 9:45am PST

A photo posted by Brian Doyle (@briandoylephoto) on Mar 30, 2016 at 5:21pm PDT

A photo posted by L Squared (@youvebeenlinked) on Mar 30, 2016 at 4:31pm PDT

A photo posted by Brian Doyle (@briandoylephoto) on Feb 24, 2016 at 5:35pm PST

Want to fill your Instagram feed with adventurousness? Check out our Best of Alaska trip, or our range of Alaska tours.

Feature image c/o Joseph, Flickr