hauling trailer to Alaska

Alaska state park RV sites are only $15 to $20 a night. Most have no power or water. One location to dump.

There are some places to boondock, more the further north/northwest you get. There are also plenty of state and provinical/territorial/municipal campgrounds that typically have a fire ring and picnic table for $10-$20 per night, dropped in an iron ranger. Many do not have potable water or a dump station, though pit or vault toilets are generally available and quite often non-potable water. The Yukon provincial campgrounds offer free campfirewood as well.

In the larger cities and bigger tourist destinations, it's somewhat harder to find really cheap or free camping, but there are options available in most places that are not too outlandishly expensive.

Church's book ("Traveler's Guide to Alaskan Camping") is an excellent and thorough guide to camping accomodations.

I would definitely suggest taking the trip, and reserving as much time as practical for it! Depending on exactly where you end up going, it may be rough on your trailer, but IMHO totally worth the wear and tear. It seems to me a bit of a truism that the very best camping experiences, at least in that part of the world, are on some of the least smooth roads.

When I pulled my 5th wheel ( now have a camper) we would budget $175 per day. That includes fuel, food to cook in the rig, campsite, and $20 per day for “stuff”.
Now when you only travel for a few hours per day, you cut down on fuel costs.
When you stay in a campground for more than one night you save on fuel, but you still have campground costs, food ...etc....
The only time we hit the $175 per day was when we did long days drives and we stayed in a campground. Or if we ate out a lot or did a lot of tours/ museums etc to pay for.
Now if you dry camp ( a lot of people call it boondocking) you will cut your costs dramatically, but you will always have fuel costs and food.
My wife is from Northern BC ( Stewart) and we have done a lot of trips up there over the years. I’ll bet you will love northern Canada and Alaska, they are beautiful, and make sure you have “loads” of time available for your trip, which is about the one piece of advice we will all agree on.
And traveling to Alaska is not all the different from driving around where your from, it’s just a long ways to go to get there, and most major Hwys are paved. The distances are longer between towns as are fuel stops.
One tid bit of info on fuel is always fill the top,1/2 of your ya tank, meaning If your in a town or see a fuel station fill up if your fuel gauge is near 1/2.
We were caught once up north when I didn’t fill up at Bell 2 and I just rolled into the old gas station at Maziaden Jct. on fumes... never did that again...
Have fun.
Soup.

No boondocking any more in Whitehorse @ Wally World.

What's your RV experience?

Properly set up it's certainly a reasonable rig to do alaska if you can be comfortable in an 18ft trailer.

The further northwest you get, the easier it is to boondock. Unless you consider walmart boondocking, then you can do it most of the way.

What are you towing it with and what are the weights for the trailer?

Moved from RVing in Mexico and South America to RVing in Canada and Alaska.