Copper River Salmon Jam & Feast
📍 Mt. Eyak Ski Hill · Cordova, Alaska
Annual music, arts, and culinary celebration in Cordova honoring the legendary Copper River wild salmon return with fresh salmon grills, artisan beer, and live folk music.
EVENTS & FESTIVALS
From wild salmon feasts and crab festivals to craft beer tastings and weekly summer farmers markets.
Great Alaska Craft Brew & Seafood Festival
📍 William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center · Downtown Anchorage
Over 50 Alaska and Pacific Northwest breweries pour limited-edition imperial stouts, barleywines, and IPAs alongside local seafood small bites and live DJ sets.
Kodiak Island Crab Festival
📍 Kodiak Waterfront & Downtown · Kodiak Island, Alaska
Memorial Day weekend tradition since 1958 celebrating Kodiak’s commercial fishing fleet with seafood boils, survival suit races, parade, and fresh king crab feasts.
Spenard Farmers & Food Truck Market
📍 Chilkoot Charlie’s Parking Lot · Spenard, Anchorage
Weekly Saturday market featuring fresh Mat-Su vegetables, wild Alaska smoked salmon, artisan baked breads, birch syrup candies, and 12+ local food trucks.
Free Admission
Alaska State Fair: Giant Cabbages & Harvest Eats
📍 Alaska State Fairgrounds · Palmer, Mat-Su Valley
Alaska’s premier late-summer agricultural feast featuring world-record giant cabbages, roasted valley sweet corn, Alaskan oysters on the half shell, fresh cream puffs, and 70+ local food vendors.
Girdwood Fungus Fair & Foraged Feasts
📍 Alyeska Resort & Community Center · Girdwood, Alaska
Annual celebration of the Tongass & Chugach rainforest fungi kingdom. Includes guided wild mushroom foraging forays, five-course wild mushroom dinners with guest chefs, and artisan tastings.
Great SE Alaska Beer & Seafood Festival
📍 Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds · Haines, Alaska
Scenic Southeast Alaska beer gathering bringing together craft brewers, homebrewers, and cideries across Alaska and the Yukon with local Dungeness crab boils and live bluegrass.