there is no way to get to southwest alaska in a car. there are roads in the towns and some of them have roads going to another town, but there is not a road going into the area from anywhere else. because of that people travel by boat or airplane in southwest if they need to go a long way. the town of bethel is a place where big boats will come from the ocean. when they get to bethel their cargo is moved onto smaller boats that go up the rivers. there are many airports as well. some of them are big enough that big jets can land there, but a lot of them are small. snowmachines, also called snowmobiles are used here a lot in the winter. when the rivers are frozen people use them like a road to drive to another town.