Old Valdez, AK

We went to the Old Valdez Museum. The building isn’t very big and most of the information there is on the 1964 earthquake. They had movies about the gold rush, the earthquake and how the town recovered. They were interesting. There’s a miniature version of the town made up under glass.

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We also drove the Old Town Valdez driving tour. They have posters with QR codes on them to follow along at a web site that you have to read about the place. The history is interesting, but there’s really nothing to see at the sites because everything was destroyed; not by the earthquake, but the town was burned down years later.

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