As part of a holiday to Alaska a few years ago:

ANC-SCC-BRW - arrived in the evening, went for a beach walk.
Stayed overnight in Utqiagvik (or Barrow, as it was known), visited the museum in the morning.
BRW-ANC - left in the morning, arrived back in Anchorage in the afternoon.

Total distance: 1555 miles.

Anyone would think I'm mad, but I'd recommend it: Anchorage is out of the way as it is, but popping into the Arctic for a night was an eye-opener. I was able to fly in a 737-400 Combi plane, too, something you don't get to do every day! (They stopped flying them altogether two years after I flew).