Carcross-Tagish Loop from Whitehorse, YT

Carcross-Tagish Loop from Whitehorse, YT

During our northward travel to Alaska, we spent several days in the Whitehorse area at the Hi-Country RV Park. We hiked Miles Canyon & Canon City Trails, toured the SS Klondike and walked the Millennium Trail, and hiked the Fish Lake Trail. As we continued our...
Floating the Chilkat River Bald Eagle Preserve

Floating the Chilkat River Bald Eagle Preserve

Based in Haines, Alaska, Chilkat River Guides provides an easy raft float trip down the Chilkat River through the Bald Eagle Preserve. We signed up for one of the trips which costs $130/person for a 4 hour adventure. We were picked up from our Haines Hitch-up RV Park...
Exploring Denali Highway

Exploring Denali Highway

The Denali Highway runs 135 miles east-west from Paxson on the Richardson Highway to Cantwell on the Parks Highway. This was the original route to Denali National Park before the Parks Highway was built from Anchorage. Along the Denali Highway, you will spend a good...
The Dalton Highway

The Dalton Highway

The Dalton Highway, sometimes called “the Haul Road”, was built in 1974 for the sole purposes of building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and providing a land route to haul supplies to the Prudoe Bay oilfields on the Beaufort Sea Coast. The 415 mile road runs from the...
Richardson Highway to Valdez

Richardson Highway to Valdez

After our visit to Wrangell-St.Elias National Park, it was time to head to our next destination, the port town of Valdez, Alaska. The only land road into Valdez is Route 4, the Richardson Highway. This has been described as one of the most scenic in Alaska and we were...
The Road to McCarthy, Alaska

The Road to McCarthy, Alaska

McCarthy, Alaska.  Founded in 1906 and originally the debaucherous sister to the Kennecott Copper Mine town located just 5 miles up the road. The town had housing, saloons, a newspaper, stores, hotels, restaurants and a red-light district. After the mine shut down,...