Coffee Shacks of Alaska

A ten year-long collection of photos of coffee shacks in Alaska, mostly in Anchorage but some as far afield as Fairbanks, North Pole, Juneau, Glennallen, and Homer.

South-Central Alaska is home to countless semi-permanent coffee shacks located in parking lots and on empty property, along main roads in every neighborhood from the Hillside to Mountain View, from Fairbanks to Homer.

The majority in this project were photographed over three days in December 1998 and January 1999, with more added as they've been spotted.

Update: July 2004 A 2004 trip to Anchorage, Seward, Homer, Denali, and Eagle River netted more than twenty new additions to the page. The grand total is now 116.

Update: August 2004 "Coffee Shacks of Alaska" featured in an August 22, 2004 Anchorage Daily News article on the phenomenon.

Update: 1/24/05 15 new shacks added, bringing the grand total to 133.

Update: 9/1/08 All photos moved to Flickr and geo-located. Photos from a May 2007 trip were added, as well as photos from Juneau coffee shacks.

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items are from between 30 Dec 1998 & 27 Oct 2002.