Best time to go
Okay we are going to make the trip to Alaska in 2019. We are trying to decide whether to go Spring ( May & June) or Fall (August & September). I have heard pros and cons for both. Pros Spring- more wi...
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lakeside013104 wrote:jacketsbum wrote:
Okay we are going to make the trip to Alaska in 2019. We are trying to decide whether to go Spring ( May & June) or Fall (August & September). I have heard pros and cons for both. Pros Spring- more wildlife viewing, snow on Mountains for prettier scenery, not as crowded etc. biggest cons- bugs, mosquitoes, black flies, bad roads left over from winter, crowded with kids out of school. Thanks!!”
We were in Alaska from early May until July. The mosquitoes were amazing, for we saw only two the whole time we were in AK or on the Alaska highway in Canada. I never once used the fly dope I carried up there. We saw more buffalo, bear, moose, Stone Sheep, elk going to and coming home from Alaska then we saw bugs of any kind. Never noticed an over abundance of rug rats either or crowds of any kind accept on the Russian / Kenai rivers. We spent most of our awake hours out of doors. Beautiful country.
If I go again it will be within the same May to the end of July or August time frame.
Enjoy.
Lakeside
That's what I like hearing! I really am leaning toward Spring because I can stretch the time if needed.. Where as in the Fall I need to leave by October to beat the snow!
