Best RV Parks to stay in Alaska

Im from the UK and travelling to Alaska in August for 2 weeks travelling in an RV - very excited.

We are driving from anchorage up to Faribanks and then onto Tangle Lakes, Glenallen, Valdez and back to Anchorage,

If there are any specific places to pull up, eat, sightsee etc PLEASE let me know! Really don't want to miss a thing.

My partner wants to see huskies - anyone know of anywhere offering tours in August?
Or Kayaking the Glaciers company that is good??

THANKS!

primetimerver wrote:
We will be leaving for a three month trip to Alaska from NC in early July. Once in Alaska, we will be traveling the usual routes and areas (Fairbanks, Denali, Mat-Su Valley, Kenai Peninsula, Valdez and PW Sound, etc.). Any recommendations on the best RV parks to stay at?

I assume you have the "milepost" magazine - if not get one. All Rv parks (private and gov.) are listed there.

Scenic view RV park in Ninilchik. The place lives up to it's name. Incredible views. It appears they are now ADULT ONLY. They are up on a bluff and I guess they were worried if some kid wandered to close to the edge of the cliff.

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I have no financial interest in giving this opinion.

Beachcomber on the coast in Ninilchik was a favorite. It is especially great if you want to go clamming - you can walk to the beach. The owner keeps clam guns and buckets for use by the guests. Great fun. Enormous clams!

Another favorite was Bayside RV park in Valdez. The main attraction of this park is that the owner is one of the very few people in ALaska that are allowed to feed the eagles. Every day at 5pm she brings out buckets of fish to the hordes of waiting eagles. It is something to see. The town is mostly walkable from there. We used the car a few times to get to certain museums.

Iditarod Park in Seward is practically next door to the Sea Life Center. It is $15 a night and the sites face the ocean.

Tolsona Wilderness Campground in Glenallen is rustic, woodsy, and a true "camping" experience. A rushing stream winds through the campground. Lovely.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Joe b. I will check your list out. Appreciate your suggestions and advice.

Here is a list of site from our web page. Over the years we have stayed at many/most of them, especially the private commercial ones. In a normal cool summer when we don't need plugins, we stay in more remote governmental campgrounds, and during a hot smoky summer we will more often be at a commercial campground plugged into electricy to run our AC.

http://www.pajbcooper.com/campgrounds.htm

As with everything else, campgrounds change, some open and other close. A couple of these may have closed since our last trip in 2011. The Homestead CG in Palmer in now closed permanently and was our favorite in the area. In some places it isn't a matter of which is best, but which is acceptable. Some locations, the parking lot at Fred meyer is the choice of many. I don't care for pavement camping but as they say, at times, "any port in a storm will do."

Not sure if Grizzly Bear CG up by Cantwell, near the entrance to Denali Park is open or not as it was reported closed sometime back.

We often split our stays between the private and government run campgrounds. Cooler summers we stay more in the more rustic campgrounds without utilities and hot smoky summers we are plugged in more at private campgrounds.

On this list of private campgrounds in Alaska, I have a few photos of some of the campgrounds, a few I have never stayed at or seen, but listed them if they were thought to exist at the time I was doing this page.
http://www.pajbcooper.com/Campgrounds%20by%20Location.htm

Here is a site we used to find some parks. They correspond very well to the information I've found on this forum. http://www.rvparkreviews.com/regions/Alaska/