The red is our alternate route due to my stomach bug.
Train from Anchorage to Talkeetna, a small back country town, bit artsy crafty, but a great lunch stop.
We stayed at 2 different lodges in Denali NP (area of 6 million squ miles). At the first, Mt McKinley Lodge, we saw the rare sight of Mt Denali next morning, (North America’s largest Mountain). Its name was changed back to Mt Denali in 2008.
Centre of photo below and still snow capped.
Beautiful lodge
At our second lodge Denali Lodge we went a distance of 110 km deep into the Denali N Park and were fortunate to see an abundance of wildlife. We upgraded to the Tundra Wilderness Tour from the historic cultural tour, and pleased we did with the amount of Bears - a large Grizzly plus 3 sets of mum and cubs, Moose, Caribou and Dall sheep we saw.
Heaps of Caribou
Grizzly, the mother bears were further away and hard to capture, but oh so cute!
Female Moose, right beside the road
They loose their antelas and regrow them,
Moose antlers
Caribou antlers
The Polychrome Pass was my favouite scenic part as we weaved our way up higher and higher into Tundra country, the colours were spectacular
Denali was a lot more commercialised as the lodge was just outside of the NP.
Following this we travelled on an 8 hour drive east through wilderness land,
and stayed at the third lodge, which was smaller and quieter, at Copper River where we saw Mt Drum, and could only gaze at part of the largely unexplored and largest of all American NParks, Wrangle-St Elias which is over 3 times bigger than Denali).
I got terribly sick with a stomach virus, so we both stayed in our room and missed the great walks.
Mt Drum, and NP, another perfect day
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