Going to Alaska, need recommendation
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Going to Alaska, need recommendation
Hi guys. Alaska is on my Bucket List of places to go. I'm planning to take a trip to Alaska w/ my gf in a couple of weeks. I don't know where or what to do there. Any experiences or recommendation would be great. Yess I check the Alaska travel sites. Way too much crap to go through. Thanks in advance
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That's the main question- how are you traveling?
Boat trips up the inside passage this time of year are a really nice way to go, a somewhat fixed itinerary, but you get to places that are impossible to drive to.
Flying gives some great vantage points en route, but limits you to what you feel like driving to when you get there.
Driving is a real chore, figure 5-6 days- each way just getting there and back, and Alaska is a very big place, with only a handful of roads, so traveling between any points in Alaska is a couple more days in itself.
If you have the time, I'd suggest a ferry ride from Seattle or Prince Rupert, still the better part of a week each way- then a couple 3-4 days driving out of Skagway or Haynes before ferrying back.
But to see "all" of Alaska, that is a huge project and could take decades....
Boat trips up the inside passage this time of year are a really nice way to go, a somewhat fixed itinerary, but you get to places that are impossible to drive to.
Flying gives some great vantage points en route, but limits you to what you feel like driving to when you get there.
Driving is a real chore, figure 5-6 days- each way just getting there and back, and Alaska is a very big place, with only a handful of roads, so traveling between any points in Alaska is a couple more days in itself.
If you have the time, I'd suggest a ferry ride from Seattle or Prince Rupert, still the better part of a week each way- then a couple 3-4 days driving out of Skagway or Haynes before ferrying back.
But to see "all" of Alaska, that is a huge project and could take decades....
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On a shorter timeline I'd fly into Anchorage, rent a car and spend a few days down on the Kenai Peninsula or up at Denali NP, or if there were enough time, both...
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I've been to Alaska a couple of times. The first time I went with my family when I was a kid and we flew into Anchorage and then drove up to Fairbanks/Denali NP and drove to the Kenai Peninsula. It was an awesome trip but it took ten days with A LOT of driving. The second time I went was a couple years ago on a cruise (actually a business trip 
). This was much a much more relaxed trip and you get to see parts of Alaska that you will never see from the road. The highlight was taking a helicopter up to the glacier in Juneau.
). This was much a much more relaxed trip and you get to see parts of Alaska that you will never see from the road. The highlight was taking a helicopter up to the glacier in Juneau.
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Glacier Bay near Juneau. the Juneau area in general is pretty awesome especially if you can make it up the Taku River or out to glacier bay. If not, theres always the Salmon Bake.
I used to live in Juneau but ive also spent time in Ketchikan, Sitka, Yakutat, etc. Good fishin.
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next time take ward air... just as good and much cheaper than the heli service. Also. their Super Otter is a badass piece of airgoing machine. I know their old mechanic and i used to play with Ken Ward's kid when i was little.
bummer he didnt land that much this year. Hopefully he will come back with enough to feed a pod a whales next year
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