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
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Humpback whale
otters
puffins
sealions
bald eagle
porpoises
grey whale
Holgate glacier
harbor seals
Aialik glacier
harbor seals
bear glacier
orcas
black bear
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Humpback whale
otters
puffins
sealions
bald eagle
porpoises
grey whale
Holgate glacier
harbor seals
Aialik glacier
harbor seals
bear glacier
orcas
black bear
