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America the Beautiful for Summer 2015 – Getting to Our National Parks
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<p>[QUOTE="knick1959, post: 828626, member: 1415"]</p><p>Great article; a blast from the past! I found it searching for "Gates of the Arctic"as I seek out any real experience with this park or any of the 5 other national parks in Alaska that are still needing a check-mark on my list (there are 8 total). The 2 toughest (and thus trending as "most expensive") are that park and Kobuk Valley because, as you mentioned, "no road access". You have to get to these on puddle jumper plane and lodging in and around these parks is scarce and expensive.</p><p></p><p>Anyone here have experience with these parks in Alaska? I'm more looking for possible angles on, for example. alternatives to staying at the most obvious place in Bettles that will break the bank. My wife is NOT a tent camper (although she did overnight with me under canvas in Chobe National Park, Botswana!) so the lodge in Bettles is currently our penciled-in option.</p><p></p><p>I had a trip to the 2 Arctic Circle parks mentioned above by name (plus a park with road access) scheduled for July of 2019. However, we have 2 lengthy and potentially expensive trips planned for the beginning of 2019, so I've pushed this back to the next year (in 7/2019 we'll instead try to hit the 3 NPs around Seattle). Plenty of time to plan, but I thought I'd ask now. Next stop is TripAdvisor. I know there is at least one guy there who completed a similar goal as ours but I already know he did the Bettles lodge thing. Other non-camping options? We're looking to fly in and out of each Arctic Circle park either on different days or, if need be, same day allocating as much time in each as possible. I know, short visit, but logistics are tough and expensive!</p><p></p><p>We're inching closer to a completed checklist, but Alaska is still lacking many completions.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="knick1959, post: 828626, member: 1415"] Great article; a blast from the past! I found it searching for "Gates of the Arctic"as I seek out any real experience with this park or any of the 5 other national parks in Alaska that are still needing a check-mark on my list (there are 8 total). The 2 toughest (and thus trending as "most expensive") are that park and Kobuk Valley because, as you mentioned, "no road access". You have to get to these on puddle jumper plane and lodging in and around these parks is scarce and expensive. Anyone here have experience with these parks in Alaska? I'm more looking for possible angles on, for example. alternatives to staying at the most obvious place in Bettles that will break the bank. My wife is NOT a tent camper (although she did overnight with me under canvas in Chobe National Park, Botswana!) so the lodge in Bettles is currently our penciled-in option. I had a trip to the 2 Arctic Circle parks mentioned above by name (plus a park with road access) scheduled for July of 2019. However, we have 2 lengthy and potentially expensive trips planned for the beginning of 2019, so I've pushed this back to the next year (in 7/2019 we'll instead try to hit the 3 NPs around Seattle). Plenty of time to plan, but I thought I'd ask now. Next stop is TripAdvisor. I know there is at least one guy there who completed a similar goal as ours but I already know he did the Bettles lodge thing. Other non-camping options? We're looking to fly in and out of each Arctic Circle park either on different days or, if need be, same day allocating as much time in each as possible. I know, short visit, but logistics are tough and expensive! We're inching closer to a completed checklist, but Alaska is still lacking many completions. [/QUOTE]
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