The Bush comprises the wilderness and villages that lie beyond cities, beyond roads, beyond ferries. It is also the part of Alaska most visitors never see. Travellers can delve deep into the wilderness at Denali National Park. The can get off the roads and ride the state ferry to distant communities in Southeast Alaska.

Vast expanses where grizzlies, moose, and wolves outnumber people. Settlements inhabited by 200 to 300 Natives and maybe a handful of non-Native get-away-from-all types. By definition the Bush is not connected to the rest of the state by road or railway, with the exception of the Dalton Highway, built to server the Arctic oil fields at Prudhoe Bay.

People travel by boat along the coast, up the rivers, and across the watery coastal plain of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. To reach anywhere else, they fire up the props on those small planes.