Wasilla Attractions

The city of Wasilla tooks its name in honor of Chief Wasilla, a local Dena'ina Athabascan Indian Chief. It served as an ideal supply staging point for the Kantishna Gold Mining area, mines in the Talkeetna area, and eventually grew to a population of over 7,000 through the Alaskan oil boom of the 1970s and 1980s.