Loring, Alaska

About Loring

Loring is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Alaska.

Loring holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.55 square miles.

📰 Loring News Today

• The Alaska VA celebrates Nurses Week and recognizes outstanding nurses. | VA Alaska health care | Veterans Affairs VA.gov Home | Veterans Affairs · May 11
• Trevor Loring Williams Obituary (2026) - Port Townsend, WA - Bradley-Kosec Funeral Home & Crematory Legacy | Obituary · May 18
• John Taylor Obituary - San Antonio, TX Dignity Memorial · Apr 3
• AK: Museum Moving Alaska Public Media · Oct 4
• A famous painter happened to be aboard for an 1889 shipwreck in Southeast Alaska Anchorage Daily News · Mar 20

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What Makes Loring Unique

• The only place in America named Loring — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• One of the northernmost communities in the lower 48 states.
• Alaska living: vast wilderness, midnight sun in summer, and true frontier spirit.
• Positioned in southeastern Alaska, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 2+ neighboring communities within 20 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Loring

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