First timers and need advice!
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 bac...
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"Cheaper Day trips"....if it's not too late
- Take a trip to Hatcher Pass (near Anchorage); lots of hiking opportunities and a fair amount of history
- Spend a day or so in Talkeetna; Funkytown Alaska
- The drive to Chitina would be good. I would not recommend taking a rented RV to McCarthy even if your rental contract allows it: as posted above, to avoid tire issues, a slow trip is necessary and that will chew up most of a day coming and going.
- Take a trip to Tok.....different scenery.
- Whittier is neat; hiking and boating activities
- There are lots of options for fishing trips on the road system (Anchorage - Fairbanks) ranging from fully guided (do everything except bite the hook for you) to drop offs (where you are literally dropped off)
- Rent a canoe and paddle the roadside lakes
- On the Glenn Highway (Los Anchorage to Glenallen), lots of hiking trails. Just have to watch for the signs at the roadside.
Kind of hard to do many of the activities cheaply during a quick trip.....reason to come back.
- Take a trip to Hatcher Pass (near Anchorage); lots of hiking opportunities and a fair amount of history
- Spend a day or so in Talkeetna; Funkytown Alaska
- The drive to Chitina would be good. I would not recommend taking a rented RV to McCarthy even if your rental contract allows it: as posted above, to avoid tire issues, a slow trip is necessary and that will chew up most of a day coming and going.
- Take a trip to Tok.....different scenery.
- Whittier is neat; hiking and boating activities
- There are lots of options for fishing trips on the road system (Anchorage - Fairbanks) ranging from fully guided (do everything except bite the hook for you) to drop offs (where you are literally dropped off)
- Rent a canoe and paddle the roadside lakes
- On the Glenn Highway (Los Anchorage to Glenallen), lots of hiking trails. Just have to watch for the signs at the roadside.
Kind of hard to do many of the activities cheaply during a quick trip.....reason to come back.
