Tag: Denali Highway

• Canoe, Raft, and Automobile

  

  We explored by water and highway on our 12-day trip to Nabesna, Gulkana, Klutina, Denali Highway (including Tangle Lakes), and Glenn Highway.  See the previous post for our time in Wrangell-St Elias NP&P on Nabesna Road. We arranged a June 19 raft rental and drop off on the Gulkana River while we camped with electric…

  Melissa Rudacille

  June 28, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, travel

  Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, Denali Highway, fishing, glacier, moose photos, Tangle Lakes, travel, Wrangell-St Elias National Park

• Alaska Travel

  

  As we are packing to return to Alaska, I am also planning our 2025 budget.  It is much easier to anticipate what we might spend now that we are on our fourth season!  Last year, I tracked the cost of all our mini-vacations, from 3 to 10 days. It cost us $2630 to drive our…

  Melissa Rudacille

  March 29, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, travel, Travel to and from Alaska

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, Arctic, aurora borealis, Copper River Highway, Cordova, cost per day, Dalton Highway, Denali Highway, Denali National Park, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Hatcher Pass, Russian River, Tangle Lakes, travel

• Denali Highway June 2024

  

  We had 6 fun days camping, fishing, and wildlife viewing along the Denali Highway. C’s new schedule of 8 work days followed by 6 days off is great for exploring Alaska.  Two weeks ago we traveled on the Dalton Highway and went over the highest highway pass in Alaska (Atigun Pass).  This time we drove…

  Melissa Rudacille

  June 19, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, Denali Highway, fishing, Maclaren Summit, Tangle Lakes

• Denali, Susitna River, and Fairbanks

  

  While it is warming up fast, much of interior Alaska’s infrastructure is closed for another month or more.  The George Parks Highway is open pavement, but most rest areas and overlooks to the side of the road haven’t been cleared.  Many people before us had trudged thru the snow to this viewpoint of the Alaska…

  Melissa Rudacille

  May 3, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, When to travel to Alaska

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, break-up, Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Denali, Denali Highway, Denali National Park, Migration, moose photos, Trumpeter Swans

• Potholes and Mosquitoes, Week 15 in Healy

  Alaska is not all sunshine, rainbows and wildlife.  At times the wildlife hides. There are a lot of potholes and frost heaves on Alaska roads. And there are even more mosquitoes than potholes.  If we had caught even one fish last weekend this post might have a different title. When C found out at 9:30…

  Melissa Rudacille

  June 27, 2023

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Fishing in Alaska, Life in Alaska

  Alaska Wildlife, Denali Highway, fishing

• Denali Highway

  

  We are constantly experiencing time warps up here! Somehow we traveled 6 hours before realizing that we had better turn around as it was a long way home. So much beauty around each corner. Technically the highway isn’t open yet. Where the snow drifts were high it was sometimes only one lane. No bites fishing.…

  Melissa Rudacille

  May 7, 2023

  Alaska Activities, Fishing in Alaska, Life in Alaska

  break-up, Denali Highway, fishing