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1. Day Anchorage
Arrival in Anchorage. Complimentary transfer to your hotel in downtown Anchorage. Pick up your rental car. Explore the highlights of the city during a escorted city sightseeing tour.
* Optional Sightseeing
Anchorage City Sightseeing Tour
2. Day Anchorage - Denali National Park (230 mi)
Today you leave Anchorage and drive along the Parks Highway to Denali. On your way you may stopover in Talkeetna and take a scenic flightseeing tour to Mt. McKinley. Continue to Denali Village. Enjoy the a rafting tour on the Nenana River or attend the Denali Night Dinner Theatre Show.
* Optional Sightseeing
Mt. McKinley Flightseeing Tour
Denali Rafting Tour
Denali Night Dinner Theatre Show
3. Day Denali National Park
Depart early and enjoy the Denali Wildlife Shuttle Tour to Eielson Visitor Center (included). On clear days you'll be amazed by the natural beauty of the park with towering Mount McKinley in the background. Enjoy the scenery from rolling valleys to glaciated peaks and the wildlife - bears, moose, caribou, wolves, Dall sheep, ground squirrels, foxes and birds. Feel free to go for a hike or walk during the day and return to the park entrance at your leisure.
* Sightseeing
Denali Shuttle Bus Tour (included)
4. Day Denali National Park - Fairbanks (120 mi)
Short drive to Fairbanks. On your way visit the former trading center for the Athabascan Indians in Nenana. Explore the former gold rush town of Fairbanks. Attend the Riverboat Discovery Cruise, visit the Gold Dredge #8 or greet the dogs of former Iditarod musher Mary Shields during a guided tour.
* Optional Sightseeing
Riverboat Discovery Cruise
Gold Dredge #8
05. Day Fairbanks - Copper Center (260 mi)
Travel along the famous Alaska Highway to North Pole. The highway winds along the Alyeska Pipeline though the the foothills of the Alaska Range. Enjoy scenic views of three mountain ranges: Wrangell, Chuchach Mountains and the Alaska Range.
* Optional Sightseeing
Columbia Glacier Cruise
06. Day Copper Center
Drive or fly to Mc Carthy and Kennicott located in the heart of the Wrangell / St. Elias National Park. As you follow the rugged McCarthy Road watch for salmon in famous Copper River and enjoy the fantastic views of Mt. Drum and Blackburn.
* Optional Sightseeing
Flightseeing Tour to McCarthy
Glacier Hike
07. Day Copper Center - Anchorage (220 mi)
Leave today and travel through the Matansuka Valley to Anchorage. Don't miss the stopover at Matanuska Glacier, one of the few you can drive to and explore on foot.
OPTIONAL: Take the Alaska Ferry for a scenic cruise across the Prince William Sound.
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