Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Portage, AK
From collectors
The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is located on about 700 acres at the head of Turnagain Arm and the entrance to Portage Valley, Milepost 79 of the Seward Highway, about 11 mi southeast of Girdwood.
It is a Wildlife sanctuary for orphaned or injured wildlife, as well as home or temporary home to captive born and translocated wildlife such as wood bison. It is a wildlife sanctuary that provides comfortable, permanent homes for orphaned and injured animals.
This wildlife conservation center is open 7 days a week from 8:30 am to 7 pm starting May 1st to September 30th.
The machine is in the gift shop. Designs are:
1) Moose,
2) Wolf head,
3) Buffalo,
4) Bear.
07/11/23: There is highway road construction in front to the Conservation Center so the entrance has been moved. Watch for the new sign. They let me go in to roll pennies at the gift shop without paying. Pennies are rolling a little short on copper.
06/24/26 Machine still located in gift shop. Bear and Buffalo rolled well, but Moose print was light and difficult to see image on pressed penny both times we tried. Did not try Wolf.
Machines and designs
| Machine | Designs | Coin type |
|---|---|---|
| Machine 1 | 4 | Penny |
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