Northern Lights · Tour

Anchorage Aurora Photo Tour with a Professional Photographer Guide

The longest running northern lights photo tour in the Anchorage area, with hotel pickup and a season that runs from August to late April. A professional photographer leads it, covering both the science behind the aurora and the technique for shooting it. No photography experience is needed, and the tour works just as well if you only want to look. The operator updates both the aurora and the weather forecast daily, and the tour runs only when the forecast gives a real chance of seeing something. Neither the weather nor the aurora takes instructions, so nothing can be guaranteed. Two booking features improve the odds. You can reserve as many nights as you like, subject to space, and only pay 48 hours in advance under Reserve Now and Pay Later. And if the aurora does not appear on your tour, you get a free make-up tour. That combination is unusually favourable: booking three nights costs nothing until each one is 48 hours away, and three attempts beats one by a wide margin.