I'm not a travel agent but I enjoy planning trips. Here's our itinerary from our almost 2 weeks in Alaska
7/26 CLE-DFW-ANC 6,533 steps
7/26-28 ANC Comfort Suites Airport
7/27 – 19,841 steps
8am Budget Rental Car - Anchorage
Flattop Trail 3 mi RT, 1500 ft gain, back side better – Sunnyside trail $5 parking – saw top of Denali
Earthquake Park
Point Woronzof – watch planes, beach
Ship Creek Overlook – salmon
King’s Landing – Ulu factory (Knives)
Moose’s Tooth Pizza for supper
7/28 - 14,932 steps
Potter Marsh – Mile 117 S Hwy
Beluga Point S 110.3 – Bird Point S 96.5 - views
Wildlife Conservation Area 9-7 14/18
Seward HWY to Turnagain Arm mile 48
Kenai River fish walk .25 mi by VC Soldotna
Tern Lake – junction of Seward/Sterling Hwys - swans
Anchor Point Beach, Western sign – saw an eagle
Anchor Point 36037 Old Sterling Hwy #3– tiny house
7/29 - 18,867 steps
Anchor Point Beach, Western sign – saw an eagle
Homer - Overlook Mile 170 – Homer sign
Homer Spit - Salty Dog Saloon, Halibut Hook, Tidepooling – saw starfish
Bishop Beach – Diamond Creek Trail
Lunch – Thai Cosmic Kitchen
Ninilchik Russian Orthodox church
Russian River falls – salmon $11 parking
7/29- 8/1 Cooper Landing 16938 Sterling Hwy – tiny house; separate toilet & shower
7/30 - 20,912 steps
Juneau Falls via Bear Creek on Slaughter Ridge Rd
Exit Glacier – 20 min drive Glacier view 1 mi onto Overlook hike 1 mi
Two Brothers for supper – giant nachos - enough to feed 3+ people
7/31 - 6,764 steps
Major Marine Tour check in 8:30, 9:30 – saw 3 types of whales, porpoises, puffins, seals, sea lions, otters, 2 glaciers calving. Discount tickets from TourSaver
Breeze Inn for supper
2 lake trail & a waterfalls – 1 mile
8/1 – 2,413 steps
Tried to go to Byron glacier but cold & rainy. Saw an eagle on the way to VC
Car had issues so had to go to airport to switch cars
Palmer 11980 Shooting Star Circle RV
8/2 – 11,042 steps
Independence Mine Park – 9-6 $5 to park
April Bowl hike at Hatcher pass – too foggy to all of it
South View Denali Mile 135, North view closed
Denali State Park Moose Flats Loop trail .75 mi K’esugi Ken
8/2-4 Cantwell Jack River Canyon Rd Yurt – outhouse, no shower
8/3 4,670 steps
Denali NP 9:30 Shuttle non-narrated – 2 grizzly bears, Dall sheep, moose, 4 caribou
Movies in Visitor Center
4:00 Sled puppy show at park headquarters
8/4 – 9,030 steps
Drove to Mile 15 in NP, did Savage River loop 2 mi
Saw a porcupine on the way out
Nenana – free RR museum – not worth the stop
Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitor Center, Antler arch by the center
North Pole 1997 W Athena Circle RV
8/5 – 3,751 steps
Beaver Slough trail – started but too wet
Santa Claus house & reindeer – wasn’t open yet
Alaska pipeline view – V 243.5
Wrangell-St Elias Copper Landing VC – sign but park was closed
Tok Cutoff overlook
Gakona 0.1 Tok Cutoff First Driveway South Log cabin. Saw black bear by the cabin in the morning
8/6 – 4,898 steps
Wrangell-St Elias Copper Landing VC – bluff trail
Drove to Valdez – raining but saw Worthington Glacier, Bridal Veil falls, Horsetail falls, other falls
Solomon Gulch Fish Hatchery – salmon, seagulls, sea lions, waterfall
Lunch – The Potato
Matanuska Glacier – view A 101.5, 99.3
Palmer 11980 Shooting Star Circle RV
8/7- 11,933 steps
Thunderbird falls - $5 parking
Barbara/Southfork Falls 10-15 min walk, .9 mi
Eagle River Nature Center – Rodak Nature trail
McHugh Creek waterfall
ANC Comfort Suites Airport
8/8 ANC-ORD-CLE