When driving into Alaska, however, you will travel through Canada and must be prepared to cross the U.S.- Canada border and go through Customs. A passport is not needed for U.S. citizens. Alaska is unique among the 50 states in that most of its land mass has not been organized into political subdivisions equivalent to the county form of government. Alaska has very few roads for its vast size. Austria, a country one eighteenth the size of Alaska, has twice as many miles of road.
Roads go from Anchorage to the Canadian border, to Seward, to Homer, to Valdez, to Fairbanks.
Of these roads, only 22 percent are paved. This again depends on where in Alaska you settle. Alaska has four different climate zones, ranging from warm and wet, to cold and dry, to cold and snowy. In Anchorage, the weather averages 50 degrees in the summer and 20 degrees in the winter. Snow season runs from October through May, averaging 70 inches of snow in the Anchorage area.