IS ALASKA RIGHT FOR YOU? - How to Travel to Alaska

First of all, if you’ve never looked at a road map of Alaska, check out google maps for a minute. There are VERY few roads in the entire state. So unless you’re a bush plane pilot there are really only a few locations that are even accessible by car.

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We’ve divided Alaska in to the 3 most visited regions in the state:

1. Interior Alaska: the home of Fairbanks, The Dalton Highway, Denali National Park and the cute town of Talkeetna

The Kenai Peninsula
In our opinion, if you are flying in or driving to Alaska you really can have a TOTAL Alaska experience by just visiting the Kenai Peninsula. Here’s 8 quick reasons:
1. People fly in from all over the world just to fish the salmon in the Russian River.
2. If you’re looking for other fishing, you can always book Halibut fishing out of Homer or Seward/seward. Hope you catch more fish than we did.
3. Kenai Fjords National Park is home to the Harding icefield and its 30 outflowing glaciers….or nearly 40 glaciers. The National Park site said both numbers. We can all agree that’s a lot of ice.
4. The Kenai is packed with wildlife: bald eagles, humpback whales, orcas, sea otters, sheep, bears…just to name a few. If you’re as bad at spotting wildlife as we are, you can always visit the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and see just about everything including musk ox, which might be our new favorite friends.
5. In the Kenai peninsula alone you’ll find some of Alaska’s best museums, aquarium and again, the Alaska wildlife conservation center. You should seriously go here. They have Musk Ox, again, which are awesome.
6. This is also one of the best jump off points scenic flights or sea plane adventures, including a trip over to Katmai National Park: Home of the famous brooks falls for brown bear viewing. Maybe you can get a shot of a fish going into a bears mouth. We didn’t.
7. The Alaska Railroad comes down here for a reason. It’s a beautiful trainride which we didn’t take ourselves, but we saw them next to us on the road pretty often. The road was beautiful drive therefore the train must be a beautiful ride. Also, online reviews say its awesome.
8. Whether you're hoping to explore mountains or ocean, from the coastal rain forests around Seward and Kodiak to the rough Arctic chill of glaciers flowing off the Harding Icefield—there’s a huge range of diversity here.

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[michaelraichel]

Bummer
Denali was the highlight of my trip.
I did the train.
Mountain was wide open the whole time I was there.
The Dall Sheep were all out sunnying themselves.
In that 80 mile bus trip we seen thousands of sheep.
Eagles, bears, caribou, moose.
I stayed at a hotel in the park.
That train ride was fantastic. Incredible. Off the beaten path.

[andregilbert]

Alaska is my home away from home. Summers are gorgeous but I'm more in love with the winters. Love the snow. Love Alaska

[JenAKHall]

I chuckled at the “it’s August, it should be hot.” August and September are our rainy season. You’d have better luck of dry weather in late May, and into June and July.

[ToddStafford]

Denali National Park is not about the mountain... It's about the wildlife and the scenery....

[rachaeluponen]

I born in Alaska and lived there until I was 29. I was never much into outdoors activities, but fortunately, I never had to go very far to appreciate the beauty it had to offer. Thank you for doing justice to my home state!

[acajudi]

It was my 50th state, and Kalispell, Montana was my 49th. I visited all 50 states and many places outside the USA. Acapulco and Singapore my favorites. Earthquakes were deal breakers for Acapulco for retirement, and Singapore was safe and clean, but too expensive for me.

[jeremynkelley]

Rain and fog is what makes Alaska dramatic and beautiful!

[nooglette]

Incredible video! We're travelling from Australia and planning our Alaska trip (3 weeks; last week of August and first two weeks of September) this year. This gave us much more direction. Will definitely watch the Vlogs. Cheers!

[vnv]

Read 2 novels on alaska into the wild and the great alone.feels like i'been there.although i m from india.For you its alaska for us its himalayas.come to himalayas some day.

[alisonkintzer]

I live in Alaska and Denali is 100% a must see if you visit here. I’ve done Denali as a day trip from Fairbanks lol. And Healy is right outside of Denali, wayyyy closer than talkeetna is. There are restaurants and many places to stay there, especially in the summer.

[Alaska_Gal]

Heck yeah, it’s worth it. I was just there last week. 2nd time solo traveling in Alaska. Love it.

[feliciafelicity]

alaska is just so big so much to do here. so much to see. i moved here to alaska 1 year ago. and have seen tons of tourists when they come in june - july. when the salmon run hits and it gets insane.

[TJDuffy-ipue]

Pronunciation from a Southeast resident:
SEWARD: SU-erd, Not SEE-werd.
KETCHIKAN: Ketch-ih-can, not Ketch-ee-kahn.
Only tourist mags calls it the panhandle. We call it The Southeast or The Inside Passage (if on a boat).
And, there's a third town you can access by road in Southeast: Hyder.


And you don't really need to ask yourself why you are coming here and overthinking such a simple concept. Alaska is the most beautiful place on earth and people who appreciate beauty want to come here.

[damasovi_travels]

this is what I need it... Alaska IS for me... Still waiting but more info is always welcome!

[NomadJournalistNews]

Thanks for the realistic review! I'm looking into visiting Alaska this year, and I've been trying to figure out just how hard it really is. This was a nice overview of all the places to see, and things to consider.

[troyottosen]

I will make this simple as a longtime Alaskan, you want “real Alaska “, get off our few roads.Simple.😉👍

[andrewmichalak]

Shut-ins need not apply! My sister lives in Seward and seeing your travels there bring good memories. Alaska is for those who loves outdoors. Cheers!

[amycuaresma]

Lifelong Alaskan resident.. agree 💯 that you can get the full experience between Anchorage and the kenai Pennsylvania

[fbksfrank]

If you are a early bird, Denali isn't open until May 20th, That being said, if you are a hardcore mountain biker or back country hiker, you can go as soon as they open the road, you can only drive out to thirty mile, but that is a good start.

[mushroomlw]

I even tell the people who live here in Alaska.
If you wait for good weather to do something, you will never do anything.

Not saying there is no good weather. Just that it can be good weather where you live. Then you travel to where you want to do your activity and it could be any kind of bad weather.
Rain
wind
Overcast
Or all of the above or a mixture of whatever.

And good weather can change in an instant.

Rain gear a must
Windproof a must (helps keep body heat from blowing away)
A day pack helps for the quick charging weather to store the layers for whatever weather happens.
Plus it makes it easier to have snack food and beverages with you.

And nobody will make fun of you for wearing rain boots everywhere.