Roll Call Alaska 2019
Things seem to be a bit slow lately, so Let's get the ball rolling for next year. Scuttlebutt has it that several folks are looking northward for springtime road trips. I would like to say, if the ...
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MORSNOW wrote:
Kayteg, just before Anchorage is the Eagle River campground, take the Eagle River Loop/Hiland Road exit (3rd Eagle River exit after you cross the river and climb back uphill), cross back over the highway and take an immediate left on VFW Road, the campground access road will be on your right. Its a Chugach National Forrest campground without hookups but right on the river, beautiful. Eagle River is about 10 miles from downtown Anchorage and has a Safeway grocery
There are 3 dump stations in Eagle River too (Chevron, Tesoro, & Fred Meyer gas stations).
The three "camp grounds" in Anchorage are all kind of sketchy.
South of Anchorage about 15 Miles is Bird Creek campground, also no hookups but located on the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet. One gas station right across the highway.
Drove via it just hour ago. When it is nice scenery in the woods, it is $20/night for parking pad as the only amenities are pit toilets.
Dump station is closed and they have cistern with water.
For last 2 weeks I had much nicer scenery for free while getting here.
Come down to Centennial Park, with showers, dump and WI-FI included in $25/night.
All sites with electric are taken, but I carried generator for 4000 miles, so don't mind to finally use it and don't think I will use $10 of electric they charge.
Commenting on Alaskan Highway - I used to live in 4-seasons and know what winter can do to the roads. IMHO the Alaskan Highway was poorly build to start with. You have nice stretches of smooth asphalt for few miles and then build "speed bumps" that will get you airborne at 60 mph. Evidently different crews build different stretches. Than don't see any surface repairs done. Whenever there are cracks, or other pavement build flaw, they dump few tons of gravel, set warning signs and call it the season.
Kind of sucks as 40 years ago somebody invented an asphalt truck, who could make the patches driving 40 mph. But that technology never got here.
Camper is down and it is closing on dinner time. There is Texas Roadhouse across the freeway, but did I drive to Alaska to eat Texan steaks?
Time to go.
