Let me pose this question again ... I know Anchorage has moose inside the city
limits (I saw several last week when I was passing thru on the way to Homer)
but ... how good are the photo ops compared to Denali?

Reason I'm asking is that a group of us (including Roger Clark and me) will be
in Denali late August and the first couple days of Sept, then are drifting to
Homer to fly into Katmai for a custom camping trip for brown bears (which still
has two openings by the way, if interested check out
http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/katmai_bears.htm ). One of the guys is from
Sweden and has this odd Scandanavian obsession with moose (give me bears or
caribou or sheep any day!) and wants to go to the "best spot" for a big bull.
He has Sept 4 and 5 open (will be in Denali until the 3rd at a workshop and
will go to Homer the 6th with the rest of us).

Anyway I suggested he either ride the shuttle bus to Teklanika (inside Denali)
and wander upstream to find moose or look for them in the wooded areas on the
first 14 miles of paved road in Denali, where I've seen them often. Someone
from Alaska wrote the following to him, saying the "Anchorage Hillside" area is
the best spot in North America (which sounds like a strrrretch to moi). Here's
the entire quote ...

quote
As for moose......in my opinion, the Anchorage Hillside offers the best
opportunity for big moose photography in North America. It is also the most
"dependable". Teklanika usually had moose, but not always and they are not
as habituated to people as the moose on the Hillside. You will get closer
to more big moose in Anchorage./quote

So, anyone with actual experience photographing them in the ANC city limits or
this specific area care to comment? If so, where exactly do you go since the
only internet references to this area are for a bed-and-breakfast
Personally I'd rather take my chances in the wilderness but my friend just
wants to get close up shots of a willing bull so I was gathering info for him.

Bill