Please help! Alaska itinerary for RV newbie.

greeholiday wrote:
Thanks all for our great feedback. Thinking about cutting out Seattle and flying straight into Anchorage to give us an extra day to explore. Clearly Denali and Seward are musts and will try to maximize time in each. Do you think a family of six can survive for 3 nights in one of the Denali National Park campgrounds without hookup? I like the suggestion to provision the RV on Day 1 and hit the road first thing the next day to Denali, but on the long ride from Denali to Seward, should we overnight somewhere?

Go directly to Anchorage to give yourself the additional day, first timers to Alaska don't realize how far apart places are in Alaska. We didn't when we did ours in 2015, all by road from southern California. We didn't see Denali NP during our trip, but did go to Seward. There's a couple of private campgrounds and the city run camping area that has coin operated showers and a RV dump. The city also runs a bare bone site on Nash road that has only portable toilet, you can return to the city campsite anytime to use the shower (plenty of hot water) If you want to get out and walk on a glacier then made a overnight stop at Mantanuska Glacier, we did this and it was great, you can camp there.

Musk Ox Farm


Mantanuska Glacier

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There are plenty of pullouts along the way for overnight stops we used those a number of times. In Anchorage there is a Fred Myers store, they have everything and the gas station has a RV dump. Use Google Earth to find many of those pullout along the route you want to take. If I can be of further help just PM me.