Arrive Anchorage, Girdwood, Whittier & Valdez
Depart the UK on your chosen scheduled flight to Anchorage. Upon arrival, independently make your way to your hotel, where you spend the first night of your adventure.
Sheraton Hotel & Spa, Anchorage
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Alaska Highlights By Motorhome
- 12 Days / 11 Nights
- March to October
Alaska offers profoundly beautiful scenery, quaint towns and fantastic opportunities for wildlife viewing. Traversing by motorhome is an amazing way to explore this vast and remote wilderness. This pre-planned itinerary includes many highlights including Denali, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Glenallen and Valdez. This motorhome itinerary includes:
- Round trip scheduled flights
- C21 Motorhome, including: insurance (Third Party Liability Protection, Auto Liability Coverage and Supplemental Liability Coverage up to $1,000,000), Vehicle Departure and Provisions Kit (including cooking and eating utensils), Personal Kits (includng towels, pillows, sheets), mileage (500 kilometre package) and local taxes on all items which have been prepaid. Click here for more information on motorhome inclusions and alternative options.
- First nights accommodation
Please note that fees for the campgrounds listed are not included. They are our suggestions for the best option in that location. Campground passes can be pre-purchased, but we highly recommend that you pre-book the campgrounds you wish to stay at to avoid disappointment.
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Talkeetna Mountains and Palmer
45mi / 72km
Collect your Cruise America motorhome from the Anchorage depot and drive northeast on the Glenn Highway. You’ll pass the townships of Eagle River and Chugiak and continue on towards Palmer, which is about an hours drive from Anchorage. As you head through the Eklutna Flats, enjoy the towering vistas of the Chugach and Talkeetna Mountains, and catch a glimpse of Pioneer Peak, the closest peak in the distance. Visit: for a closer view of Knick Glacier take an airboat tour by taking the Old Glenn Highway exit and driving to Knick Glacier Adventures about 20 miles from Palmer.
Mount View RV Park
Denali National Park
200mi / 322km
Today you head from Palmer to Denali National Park continuing on the Parks Highway you drive through the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Denali State Park. If time permits take a side trip to the small community of Talkeetna. Visit: Denali is six million acres of wildland, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travellers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America’s tallest peak, 20,320′ Mount Denali. Wild animals large and small roam unfenced lands. Solitude, tranquility and wilderness awaits.
Riley Creek Campground
Ester & Fairbanks
125mi / 201km
Before leaving Denali National Park to head for Fairbanks where we suggest you enjoy a 7-hour Tundra Wildlife Tour into Denali National Park. The park is inhabited by lots of different animal species. Mt. Denali can be seen if the weather is clear that day and a snack lunch is included. In the afternoon continue on the Parks Highway north to Fairbanks. Accompanied by incredible forest and mountain landscape you drive through the communities of Healy, Nenana and by the community of Ester, an old gold mining camp. Visit: enjoy the wildlife tour with some luck you may see bears, caribou, moose, sheep, wolves and a variety of birds.
Rivers Edge Resort
North Pole & Glennallen
180mi / 290km
Today you head to Paxson/Glennallen, following the Richardson until Delta Junction. Just outside of Fairbanks you drive by North Pole, the home of North America’s Santa Claus. In Delta Junction take the Richardson Highway and drive south towards Paxson/Glennallen. Visit: The Copper River has world class salmon fishing, if you don’t feel like fishing there is hiking, rafting and even flightseeing.
Tolson Wilderness Campground
Richardson Highway & Valdez
185mi / 298km
Today you head to Valdez, enjoy the spectacular drive on the Richardson Highway, part of the route parallels the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Weather permitting stop and enjoy incredible views of the Wrangell Mountains. Drive by Worthington Glacier and through Keystone Canyon with its waterfalls. Visit: Valdez is a must see on your Alaska itinerary. The crashing glaciers and towering Chugach mountains rising from the sea make Valdez absolutely picturesque.
Bear Paw RV Park
Whittier, Prince William Sound & Seward
85mi / 137km
This morning it is all aboard the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry to Whittier travelling through beautiful Prince William Sound. Upon arrival in Whittier drive through the Whittier-Portage Tunnel (one-lane tunnel, open to traffic during certain hours only). Then drive the Seward Highway through scenic landscape to Seward. Visit: Portage Glacier and the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center is an interesting stop thanks to exhibits that let visitors walk through a simulated ice cave, view live ice worms or touch an iceberg. For a closer look at Portage Glacier, there are hour-long sightseeing boat cruises on Portage Lake or you can hike a number of foot trails that wind near the frozen monument.
Stoney Creek RV Park
Kenai Fjords National Park
130mi / 209km
Today you are heading back on the Seward Highway to Anchorage but before you do visit Kenai Fjords National Park home to some of most pristine, rugged, breathtaking glacial vistas in North America. The massive Harding Icefield feeds the 38 glaciers of the park. These glaciers, in turn, have been sculpting the fjords making a home for the many species of marine life – mammals, fish and seabird alike. Visit: Enjoy a Wildlife & Glacier cruise into scenic Kenai Fjords National Park and maybe even spot a whale.
Golden Nugget Camper Park
Journey Home
Return your motorhome to the Cruise America depot in Anchorage, make your way to the airport and check in for your flight back to the UK.
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