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| (DRT#05) Denali Backcountry Train Package | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Day 1: Anchorage (Arrival Day) Arrive in Anchorage during the day. Transfer to your hotel in downtown. Spend the remaining afternoon to visit the sights of the Alaskan city or enjoy a stroll along the Coastal Trail with views of Mt. McKinley and the "Sleeping Lady". Upon request we arrange for you a guided city sightseeing tour. Overnight Anchorage.
Day 2: Anchorage - Denali National ParkEarly morning transfer to the railroad station. Board the Alaska Railroad for the departure at 8:00 am. Enjoy the scenery as the train whisks you through the Matanuska Valley towards the Alaska Range and Mt. McKinley. Guaranteed wrap-around Dome Car Seats are available on request. Onboard services feature a restaurant, gift shop and snack bar. Arrive at Denali Village at 3:45 pm where you are picked up and transferred to your hotel. Once you settled take a stroll through Denali Village, take a flightseeing tour or a wildwater rafting trip (on request). Overnight Denali National Park.
Day 3: Denali Nat'l Park - Camp Denali/North Face Lodge Spend the free morning at Denali Village and transfer to the Denali Park rail station. Meet your driver/guide and board the bus for the departure to Camp Denali or North Face Lodge at 1:30 pm. Enjoy the wonderful sceneries of the Denali National Park during the 7 hour journey. Your driver informs you about the history of Denali National Park, its diverse wildlife and flora. Once a bear, caribou or another animal has been spotted the bus will stop that everyone can watch and take pictures. Arrive at the lodge at about 8:00 pm.
Day 4+5: Camp Denali/North Face Lodge Spend the next 2 days exploring Denali Park. Hike with our naturalist guides to remote alpine valleys and tundra-covered ridges where you can observe, and not just spot, wildlife. Your guide is highly trained and practiced in interpreting biology, botany, sub-arctic ecology, geology, bird life and Alaska history. If you wish to explore the park on your own, we supply you with trail and topographic maps, interpretive booklets, canoes and bikes. You can lend walking sticks, daypacks, raingear and fishing gear. In the evening relax in the living room, containing an extensive library of Alaska. We also arrange flightseeing tours to Mt. McKinley from the lodge. Evening programs are presented by staff naturalists to further your appreciation of the Far North.
Day 6: Denali Park - Anchorage Get up early in the morning for the departure at 6:45 am. Enjoy for a last time the wonderful scenery of Denali National Park as you return by bus to the park entrance. You'll arrive at Denali Station at around 11:15 am, in time to catch the Alaska Railroad to Anchorage. Enjoy again a seat in the wrap-around dome car. Arrive back in Anchorage at 8:00 pm. Transfer to your hotel in the downtown area.
Day 7: Anchorage Morning transfer to the airport or individual tour extension.
Services included
Denali Backcountry Deluxe Train Package - Superior Hotel
Denali Backcountry Deluxe Train Package - Deluxe Hotel
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