The City of Wasilla (Dena'ina: Benteh) is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, United States and the fourth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the northern point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The city's population was 9,054 at the 2020 census, up from 7,831 in 2010. Wasilla is the largest city in the borough and a part of the Anchorage metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 398,328 in 2020.
Image: Wasilla, looking southeast at Main Street from Parks Highway (cropped)
Image: Wasilla cityhall
Image: Wasillalake (cropped)
Image: Iditarod Trail Race Headquaters panoramio
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Matanuska-Susitna Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its borough seat is Palmer, and the largest community is the census-designated place of Knik-Fairview. As of the 2020 census, the borough's population was 107,801.
Ruth Glacier
Mount Bradley in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, 2014
The midway area of the Alaska State Fair, held annually in Palmer during late August and early September
A freshwater pond on Trimble Glacier, in the Tordrillo Mountains, in the far south-west of Mat-Su Borough