7/30/19 Golden Nugget Inn, Nome, Alaska What? We’re in Nome?? Why that town wasn’t even on our trip plan, and here I am, near the end of the trip, writing a blog from Nome, Alaska. I never expected to be in Nome, even when planning this trip, because, well, there just aren’t any National Park …
7/27/19 My Place Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska It was chilly and wet the entire trip, but we made it back to Copper Center. The McCarthy Road was full of two hours worth of potholes and washboards, but the new tires on the truck held up great, and the old tires managed to keep from falling apart. …
7/24/19 Blackburn Cabins, McCarthy, Alaska McCarthy isn’t the only ‘town’ inside the park. You can either hike, or in our case, take the shuttle ($15 round trip/person), from McCarthy, or the footbridge, to the old mining town of Kennicott, about five miles up the side of the glacial valley. Kennicott is the name of the …
7/21/19 Blackburn Cabins, McCarthy, Alaska The only reason we came all the way out to the end of the McCartthy Road was so we can see this magnificent park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. We’ve seen pieces of this park, even significant pieces, but the shear scale of this park defies ever being able …
7/21/19 Blackburn Cabin ‘Dora Keen’, McCarthy, Alaska And what about that road that we had been prepping for the entire trip? If you recall, the McCarthy Road has been, all by itself, a major factor in planning this portion of the trip. Really, if you want to see Wrangell – St. Elias, you have to …
7/24/19 Blackburn Cabins, McCartthy, Alaska After spending more than twelve hours on a bus, Joan and I were both craving some physical activity. So for our last day in Denali, we chose a couple of small hikes inside the park. They were both on established trails, and, altogether, probably only amounted to about three miles. …
7/23/19 Blackburn Cabins, McCarthy, Alaska On our second day at Denali, more than a week ago as I write this, we took one of the bus tours I talked about in my first post on Denali. As I mentioned, the only way to get out past mile 15 on the park road, is to purchase …
7/20/19 Old Town Copper Center Inn, Copper Center, Alaska How Big is it? Well, Wrangell-St. Elias is larger than the the country of Switzerland, or the state of Maryland, whichever is easier for you to visualize. Like most of Alaska’s parks, it was created under the ANILCA act of 1980 and established as a combination …
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7/19/19 The Old Town Copper Center Inn, Copper Center, Alaska We saw some beautiful scenery yesterday, driving for an hour or so down the Nabesna Road in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. But I’m going to wait and talk about that a bit later. Today I just have to talk about the rest of …
7/18/19 Cleft in the Rock B&B, Tok, Alaska Between the issues with the truck and the flurry of activities during our too-short stay at Denali, I didn’t get a chance to write about that park, one of America’s real gems. I have a lot of pictures to share and stories to tell about Denali, so …
