Katmai
Park
7-Day Bear Viewing
Adventure Having appeared in magazines and films around the
world, Katmai's brown bears are renowned Alaskan icons. The world's largest
run of sockeye salmon up the Naknek River creates an ideal feast for brown
bears - attracting more than 2,000 of the bruins to the lands of Katmai
National Park and Preserve. This is one of the world's premier brown bear
viewing trips.
Denali National Park, Alaska
Transportation, Adventure Tours, And Lodging
Backcountry Safaris offers daily bus service to and from Denali National Park, bus tours into park, and a variety of Denali adventure trips, lodging and hotel options at Denali National Park. To make your Alaska adventure vacation complete, a visit to Denali National Park and Mt. McKinley is a must add to your Alaska adventure tour or Alaska cruise.
Backcountry Safaris is an Alaska Certified Expert travel agent and is also the premier Alaska sea kayaking and wilderness rafting adventure tour company. Specializing in adventure travel in Alaska we would be happy to answer all your Alaska and Denali National Park questions and help you with your Alaska vacation plans. We would also be pleased to arrange a custom Alaska tour package for you. Please contact us if you would like more information on a custom tour package.
Transportation To And From Denali National Park
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Denali Bus– Daily Coach Service To And From Denali National Park.
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Denali Star Train– Runs between Anchorage and Fairbanks with stops at Talkeetna and Denali National Park, home to Mt. McKinley, North America’s highest peak. Alaska Railroad scenic rail tours are designed for the fully independent traveler.
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The Roundtrip Package Deal– Backcountry Safaris offers a roundtrip discount package. Denali Bus one-way and the Denali Star Train one-way. Our Denali transportation package offers you a little variety for your roundtrip travel to Denali National Park.
Denali Cabins– Charm of an Alaskan cabin with the comfort of a hotel room. You get all the amenities-private bath, TV, phone and comfortable beds. Plus you get your own cedar cabin nestled conveniently by the highway in the boreal forest next to Denali National Park.
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Denali Backcountry Lodge– An exclusive lodge located in the enclave of Kantishna, an oasis of private land deep inside the boundaries of Denali National Park. Located at the end of the restricted-access Denali Park Road, every trip is an Alaskan wildlife adventure waiting to happen.
Denali Park Adventures
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Denali Rafting Adventures– The Nenana River offers two sections, a class II scenic mild-water raft trip or a class III/IV whitewater raft trip. We offer both paddle rafting and oar rafting options in a spectacular Alaska mountain setting and the best whitewater rafting at Denali National Park.
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Jeff King's Dog Mushing Husky Homestead Tours– An exclusive lodge located in the enclave of Kantishna, an oasis of private land deep inside the boundaries of Denali National Park. Located at the end of the restricted-access Denali Park Road, every trip is an Alaskan wildlife adventure waiting to happen.
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Denali Flightseeing – Add a Denali (Mt. McKinley) flightseeing option to your Denali Park Bus tour or your Denali Lodge package. Denali flighseeing trips from Kantishna at the end of the Denali National Park road.
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Chulitna River 4-day denali raft adventure – An excellent family adventure and sampling of Alaska's best wilderness and geography at a casual pace. We travel through Denali State Park, upper Susitna Valley and take out near Trapper Creek, a historic gold mining town
Denali Park Adventure Tour Packages
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3-Day Exclusive Denali Lodge Adventure– This Denali National Park adventure vacation includes round trip transportation from Anchorage, 2 nights lodging, rafting, dog mushing tour, and flight seeing. The lodging includes an overnight at the entrance to Denali Park and one night at an exclusive Lodge in Kantishna, 95 miles within the Park borders at the very end of the restricted Denali Park Road. Also included is a ride on the Alaska Railroad back to Anchorage.
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7 Day Kenai Fjords National Park Sea kayaking And Denali National Park Adventure– Combine the best Alaska has to offer by land and sea on this special package adventure. We spend four days sea kayaking in majestic Aialik Bay of Kenai Fjords National Park then explore Alaska's tundra in the shadow of The Great One - Denali.
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Best of Alaska 12-Day Tour– Three national parks, Denali, Katmai and Kenai Fjords. Brown bears, whales, wildlife, calving tidewater glaciers, Mt. McKinley, fall colors, hot springs and much more.
Alaska State Holidays: Alaska Day, Oct.18th and Seward's Day March 27
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, about 2 cents an acre.
15 species of whales are found in Alaska waters.
Alaska has more than 80 potentially active volcanoes.
The flag of Alaska contains 8 gold stars representing the Big Dipper and the North Star on a field of blue.
Longest Day: Barrow the sun rises on May 10th, it don't set for nearly 3 months.
Shortest Day: Barrow when sun sets on November 18th, Barrow residents do not see the sun again for nearly two months.
What maybe the oldest documented site of human habitation in North America, the Mesa Site found in 1993 lies 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
There are more than 3,000 rivers in Alaska and over 3 million lakes.
The name of Alaska probably comes from Unalaska, an Aleut word derived from agunalaksh which translates the shores where the sea breaks its back.
The 90,000 Native people of Alaska make up roughly 15% of the state's population.
Almost half of Alaska (175 million acres) is classified as wetlands.
Highest Point: Mount McKinley, 20,320 ft
17 of the highest 20 mountains in the U.S. are in Alaska. It has 19 peaks over 14,000 feet.
Of the total 365 million acres of land that make up Alaska, less than one-twentieth of 1% is settled.
Alaska has numerous natural hot springs found across the state. Near Port Moller Hot Springs on the Alaska Peninsula, a village site has been occupied intermittently over the past 3000 years.
The largest gold nugget found in Alaska was discovered near Nome in 1903. It weighed 155 troy ounces and was 2 inches thick, 4 inches wide and 7 inches long.
It is estimated that there are 100,000 glaciers in Alaska covering 29,000 square miles or 5% of the state.
The estimated tidal shoreline of Alaska including inlets, islands and shoreline to head of tidewater is 47,300 miles.
The largest state in the union, Alaska is one-fifth the size of the Lower 48 and spans 2,400 miles east to west and 1,420 miles north to south.
On average 1,000 earthquakes registering 3.5 or more on the Richter scale occur in Alaska each year.
Most snowfall in 24 hours: 62 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Dec. 1955.
Most monthly snowfall: 297.9 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Feb. 1953.
Most snowfall in a season: 974.5 inches (over 81 feet), at Thompson Pass near Valdez, 1952-53.
Most precipitation in 24 hours: 15.2 inches, in Angoon, Oct. 12, 1982.
Most monthly precipitation: 70.99 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), Nov. 1976.
Most annual precipitation: 332.29 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), 1976.
Highest recorded temperature: 100¡F, at Ft. Yukon, June 27, 1915.
Lowest recorded temperature: -80¡F, at Prospect Creek Camp, Jan. 23, 1971.
Earthquakes: 9.2 on the Richter Scale on March 27th 1964 - the strongest ever recorded in North America
430 bird species have been sited in Alaska.
Over 50 species of wild fruit is found in Alaska including Low and Highbush Cranberries, Blueberries, Salmonberries, wild rose and strawberries.
Three species of bear are found in Alaska: the black, the brown/grizzly and the polar bear. Brown bears are the largest living omnivorous land mammals in the world.
The Arctic Circle is the latitude where the sun does not set for one day at summer solstice and does not rise for one day at winter solstice
Backcountry Safaris offers daily bus service to and from Denali National Park, bus tours into park, and a variety of Denali adventure trips, lodging and hotel options at Denali National Park. To make your Alaska adventure vacation complete, a visit to Denali National Park and Mt. McKinley is a must add to your Alaska adventure tour or Alaska cruise.
