Roll call Alaska 2017
I will try to get to Alaska next year, dreamed about it for years. Anyone else planing a trip for next year?
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TxGearhead wrote:
Yeah, I'm wanting to go 2017. I passed on caravanning with a friend this year. I asked the wife if she wanted to go....in the cabover. NO. Well maybe.
I need advice on routes. Is there any reason to get on HWY2 at Whitehorse and go to Dawson and on to Tok and Fairbanks, other than avoiding seeing the same scenary twice on HWY1 from Whitehorse to Tetlin Junction on the way back? Or just take HWY4 from Watson Lake to Carmacks and on to Dawson. Then south on HWY3 to Wasilla and back to Tok. Is the HWY37 loop to Prince George BC, then Kamloops and into Washington good stuff? I wouldn't mind seeing coastal Washington and Oregon.
It'll be a bunch of miles from Houston.
If you want to do the Coast, get on 101 in California around Napa and Vallejo. That will get you the Redwwods as well. I prefer the Coast going north as the sun glare going south is brutal.
Some western parks such as Glacier do not fully open until July due to snow, so schedule them for the trip home.
The basic trip is Dawson Creek, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Tok and then decide Valdez first of Fairbanks first. If the weather is nice in Valdez, go there first. The side trips to Dawson and Carmacks and Haines are optional. The Cassiar (Hwy 37) is popular, as is the side trip to Hyder to see bears in August. If you do that, stay on 16 thru Prince George and go to Jasper, then take 93, Icefields Parkway, south to Banff and Lake Loiuse, see them and continue south on 93 to Radium Hot Springs and on south toward Missoula. That will get you to Glacier and Yellowstone without hitting any major population areas and staying in the mountains on good roads.
