Wasilla, AK Reviews

Breathtaking Scenery with a hint of civilization! - 7/27/2022
I've lived in Wasilla for two years so far and I love it. I have no problems with the valley. I live about 10 minutes south of the center of town in Wasilla and bought my first house here. I moved here from Austin, TX in 2020 and aside from being far from family & friends I love it!

I enjoy great scenery everytime I drive into town or even to Anchorage every once in a while and have only had a couple of run ins with bad apples but Austin, Texas was by far more crazy and worse! I'm retired military and used my benefits to buy my first house in Alaska! despite the fact I don't know that many people up here really I have no complaints nonetheless. I'm quiet & introverted so I like being away from big civilization and doing things on my own.

I love the winters here! I had a big knack for cold, snowy weather that I never received while in Texas for 24 years! so I knew what I was getting myself into moving 4k miles from my home state of Texas! It gets -20F in the Read More

Why Wasilla is not for me - 8/25/2021
Previously lived for many years in Eagle River, Alaska. Moved to Wasilla almost 6 years ago now.

The Wasilla cityscape is littered with aging strip malls and junky-looking lots. It is not an attractive city. To be fair it is the last stronghold with large grocery stores and supplies like Walmart and Lowes before you head out into hundreds of miles of rural homes and wilderness. Alaska is beautiful. The areas around Wasilla are mostly beautiful. Wasilla is not.

The political climate here is strongly conservative and even though cannabis is legal in Alaska, the people of the Mat-Su valley, which Wasilla is a part of the borough, wish to abolish it. Thankfully there are still new dispensaries popping up here and there but many of them are outside of the city limits or in the surrounding towns like Houston, AK.

When dealing with the pandemic, most people here didn't mask up and still don't even though they just declared the Anchorage and Wasilla Read More

school costs are misleading - 11/3/2012
The main reason I’m commenting is to point out a glaring error in this website’s data. School funding is not $5,700 per year as this site reports. It is likely double that. Note that Anchorage’s reported figure on this web site is over $10,000 per year, and the Mat-Su Borough’s per-student school spending is certainly not not less than Anchorage. Aside from that the descriptions of Wasilla (including comments) are generally accurate, but I don’t consider Wasilla to be a “rat hole” as one person commented. I’ve lived in the valley for 18 years and on the outskirts of Wasilla for 14. Most folks are nice but some of the children here lack respect for others and can be frustrating. It is common to see young children (some under 10) racing 4-wheelers in the summer and snow machines in the winter. Noise can be irritating in residential areas. Property crime is likely under reported outside city limits because Troopers are spread too thin to effectively follow-up that type of Read More

Weather - 8/30/2011
Most people think all of Alaska is cold and allot of it is. But Wasilla area, forty miles from Anchorage and we share a much warmer weather system. Eighty plus some summers and very seldom lower than twenty five below zero. It is worth spending a little time with your computer and investigate these two cities. Be careful that you don't fall in love with Alaska as I did fifty eight years ago.  Read More

The little rathole that was - 6/30/2009
I left that rathole back in the early 1990,s . Don't miss it a bit. Too much rat race and too many people to enjoy anything to do. Back then there were few stores in Wasilly . Most had to go into Anchortown to shop. Can't say as I would ever go there Read More

Winter - 6/5/2008
winter was to long this year. Snow and dark from oct to April and it snowed may too!!! Its June now and the weather is nice and mild with 18 hrs of Read More

Alaska isn't for the weak of heart - 2/6/2008
While I have lived here 23 years this May, Alaska is I can say not for the weak of heart. It takes special kinds of people to live here effectivly. First of all any area that you must import everything because the ground is too cold to dig, is in my mind not a place to be. So instead I chose Wasilla, nestled right outside Anchorage this sleepy little town is expanding at a rapid pace. Target blew up the old mall but that's okay because they were overpriced and hardly had any good stores. Now in Alaska we have what all other urban cities have, Gap, Banana Republic, Nordstroms, and TGIFridays. The difference is the prestine but always threatened landscapes, the overly buracracy riden social programs, and the extreme cold. However, the land scape overcomes all and you are either mezmerized or Read More