Three Alaska Dairy Queen closures on June 30 left the state with one store in Soldotna. The shutdowns hit Anchorage, Wasilla and Palmer. They also pushed the chain’s Alaska footprint to a single remaining location.
Three Alaska locations closed June 30
The three restaurants that closed were in Anchorage, Wasilla and Palmer. A Dairy Queen official said the franchise owner of those locations had recently closed them. The statement did not include the owner’s name or a reason for the Alaska closures.
One remaining Dairy Queen in Soldotna is now the state’s only location. For customers in the three closing markets, the practical result is simple: the nearest option in Alaska is no longer in their own city.
At least 46 closures since early 2025
At least 46 Dairy Queen locations have closed across the country since early 2025. The Alaska shutdowns add three more to that tally and show the pace of closures has not been limited to one region.
30 locations in Texas closed in February 2025, and another 12 closed in March 2025. Dairy Queen said those Texas closures were an “isolated event,” but the broader count of shutdowns since early 2025 leaves a wider pattern than that description suggests.
Great Falls and the wider chain
On June 13, a Dairy Queen in Great Falls, MT, closed after nearly four decades in business. Steve Galloway, the former owner, planned to replace that location with a Mediterranean restaurant called Zesty Eatz. It was a separate closure, but it added to the same 2025 run of shutdowns.
Dairy Queen operates about 7,800 restaurants across 20 countries through International Dairy Queen. Against that scale, the Alaska closures are small in number, yet they leave the state with one store and raise the immediate question of whether the Soldotna location becomes the chain’s only foothold there for now.
