Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska is the region nearest the contiguous United States, and its wet, lush environment reflects its proximity to the Pacific Northwest. Most of Alaska's "panhandle," an intricate strip of islands and channels, cannot be reached by road. Southcentral Alaska, on the other hand, is linked by miles of pavement, connecting travelers to both the urban and the wild.
To the north lies the Interior, anchored to the more populous Southcentral by Alaska's few highways. This alternately hot and arid, numbingly cold region basically consists of everything but the coasts and the Arctic.
Everything that cannot be reached by car — the Arctic, Kodiak Island, the west and southwest, the Alaskan Peninsula, and the Aleutians — everything that's more wilderness than civilization is the Bush.