Category: Alaska
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Lessons from the North – Takeaways from Our Alaska Adventure
We have a multitude of fond memories of our driving trip through Alaska from the incredible scenery to the wildlife to the people we met there. We learned a lot on our Alaska adventure and wanted to share a few of what we feel are the most important lessons from our trip.
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The Trip Home: Down the Alaska Highway to Minnesota
After seven weeks on the road it was time to head back home to Minnesota, so we hitched up the car and headed northeast out of Skagway on the Klondike Highway toward the Canadian border. The drive is quite pretty as you climb the Coast Range mountains, roughly following the route of many of the…
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Back on the Ferry to Skagway
After spending a couple of days back at Mendenhall Campground in Juneau it was back on the ferry and our last stop in Alaska, Skagway. It was another smooth ride on the ferry, with beautiful views of the mountains along the way. When we got to Skagway the town was pretty busy with about four…
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Glacier Bay & Gustavus on the Alaska Marine Highway
Getting to Glacier Bay After a week in Juneau we boarded the ferry again, this time for a trip to our last national park in Alaska, Glacier Bay in Gustavus, a small town accessible only by ferry or air. It was about a six hour ferry ride, this time on one of the smaller “day…
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Going to Juneau on the Alaska Marine Highway
Our next stop after Haines was Juneau, which is about a six hour ferry ride away. Due to the mountains east of most of the Alaska Panhandle there are no roads that allow you to drive into any of the towns along it, so getting to Juneay is either by boat or plane.
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Back on the Alaska Highway to Haines
From Wrangell-St. Elias National Park we headed back down to the Alaska Highway and took the Haines Highway, staying right on the waterfront in this cozy town.
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On Tour in Alaska – Wrangell St. Elias National Park
From Seward we drove about 400 miles up to the only drive-in campground in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Kendesnii campground on Nabesna Road.
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On Tour in Alaska – Kenai Fjords National Park
We drove down from Denali to Seward, about a 5 hour trip, and set up camp on the waterfront in the city-run RV park there. It’s a big campground with a beautiful view of Resurrection Bay and the surrounding mountains. It’s located on a paved walking path that gives pretty good access to most of…
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On Tour in Alaska – Experiencing Denali National Park
We started out with two days in Riley Creek Campground, near the entrance to the park and its main visitor center. It’s a nice National Park campground with no hookups but a dump station with potable water as well as showers and a small store.
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Heading to the Last Frontier – Day 6, Delta Junction and the Official End of the Alaska Highway
It’s only about a hundred miles from Tok to Delta Junction, the official end of the Alaska highway, so it took less than two hours to get there. There’s a marker there for the end of the highway as well as a visitors center with displays on Alaskan wildlife.
