Alaska in First Week of Sept
Mar 26th, 2017, 07:29 PM
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Hi Ashish,
We are travelling to Alaska around the same time. Sep 1st to Sep 9th. Our Itinerary is pretty much the same. Your itinerary looks good. We are in late 20s as well from San Jose, California.
Here is my rough itinerary I posted on my post and I saw you asking some questions on other trip report posted by Indiancouple. What a trip report that was, so helpful.
Sep 1st: Land at Anchorage airport around 10 PM, pick rental car and head to accommodation.
Sep 2nd: Do some grocery & provisions shopping in Anchorage by noon and drive to Seward. Take some pictures along the way on Anchorage-Seward highway and explore Seward rest of the day.
Night stay in Seward. Probably do exit glacier hike on this day.
Sep 3rd: Do Kenai Fjords 6 hour cruise. Doing an early AM cruise so that we can keep rest of the day to do something local like a hike if we don't get sea sick
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Night stay in Seward. So, 2 nights in Seward.
Sep 4th: Drive to Whittier from Seward and do 26 Glacier cruise in Prince William Sound. After the cruise, drive towards Palmer and explore Hatcher pass area rest of the day and night stay in Palmer.
Sep 5th: Drive from Palmer to Healy. Stop by along Talkeetna and probably do the flight seeing tour or do white water rafting there. If there is enough time just drive into Denali park to see some wild life before calling it a day. Night stay in Healy.
Sep 6th: Denali wonder lake shuttle bus tour. Do some popular hikes along the way. Just get back to room in Healy after the tour.
Sep 7th: Today will be long drive for us(~300 mile). Currently planned to drive from Healy to Valdez through Denali Highway AK 8. Renting from a car company that allow you to drive on this route. Still debating whether to do this drive in a single day or break it up. If we decide to go with long drive then night stay in Valdez. If not then night stay around Glenallen or somewhere on Richardson Hwy. If someone drove this route, please comment.
Heard from others on community that Richardson Hwy and drive into Valdez is beautiful, so I am leaning to keep Valdez in my plans.
Sep 8th: Explore Valdez town and do some activities around. Drive on Glenn Hwy to Matanuska glacier area and night stay in Sheep Mountain Lodge close to glacier.
Sep 9th: Do the Glacier hike with MICA guides and explore around for some photo opportunities.
Get to ANC airport by 9-10 PM and catch flight back home.
We are travelling to Alaska around the same time. Sep 1st to Sep 9th. Our Itinerary is pretty much the same. Your itinerary looks good. We are in late 20s as well from San Jose, California.
Here is my rough itinerary I posted on my post and I saw you asking some questions on other trip report posted by Indiancouple. What a trip report that was, so helpful.
Sep 1st: Land at Anchorage airport around 10 PM, pick rental car and head to accommodation.
Sep 2nd: Do some grocery & provisions shopping in Anchorage by noon and drive to Seward. Take some pictures along the way on Anchorage-Seward highway and explore Seward rest of the day.
Night stay in Seward. Probably do exit glacier hike on this day.
Sep 3rd: Do Kenai Fjords 6 hour cruise. Doing an early AM cruise so that we can keep rest of the day to do something local like a hike if we don't get sea sick
.Night stay in Seward. So, 2 nights in Seward.
Sep 4th: Drive to Whittier from Seward and do 26 Glacier cruise in Prince William Sound. After the cruise, drive towards Palmer and explore Hatcher pass area rest of the day and night stay in Palmer.
Sep 5th: Drive from Palmer to Healy. Stop by along Talkeetna and probably do the flight seeing tour or do white water rafting there. If there is enough time just drive into Denali park to see some wild life before calling it a day. Night stay in Healy.
Sep 6th: Denali wonder lake shuttle bus tour. Do some popular hikes along the way. Just get back to room in Healy after the tour.
Sep 7th: Today will be long drive for us(~300 mile). Currently planned to drive from Healy to Valdez through Denali Highway AK 8. Renting from a car company that allow you to drive on this route. Still debating whether to do this drive in a single day or break it up. If we decide to go with long drive then night stay in Valdez. If not then night stay around Glenallen or somewhere on Richardson Hwy. If someone drove this route, please comment.
Heard from others on community that Richardson Hwy and drive into Valdez is beautiful, so I am leaning to keep Valdez in my plans.
Sep 8th: Explore Valdez town and do some activities around. Drive on Glenn Hwy to Matanuska glacier area and night stay in Sheep Mountain Lodge close to glacier.
Sep 9th: Do the Glacier hike with MICA guides and explore around for some photo opportunities.
Get to ANC airport by 9-10 PM and catch flight back home.
