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Alaska Highway Cruises makes it
easy for you to roam the Great Land in your roomy, comfortable
RV before or after your cruise. See everything up close,
with time to investigate, take photos, relax; rest assured
that a reserved site in a private campground awaits you
each night. Here are some of the high spots along the
road.
 Alaska
Anchorage is
Alaska’s largest city, but you still sense the
proximity of the wilderness and the frontier spirit.
Among the sights: the world’s largest seaplane
base, and the Museum of History and Art. Witness the
tidal bore along Turnagain Arm (conditions permitting),
when a wall of water up to six feet high rushes up the
inlet. Catch a comfortable night’s rest at our
campground, Ship Creek RV Park.
 Homer,
on the Kenai Peninsula, attracts
fishermen, artists and seekers of spectacular scenery.
Across the bay a timbered coastline rises to the glacier-capped
peaks of the Kenai Mountains. Visit Homer Spit, abustle
with fisherfolk, a small-boat harbor, canneries, boat
building shops and the occasional artist with an easel.
 Denali
National Park and Preserve is home to
North America’s tallest mountain, and to wildlife
in amazing abundance. Weather permitting, you may catch
a glimpse of 20,320-ft. Mt. McKinley long before you
reach the park, from the highway between Anchorage and
Fairbanks. To fully enjoy your time in the area, sign
up for an optional tour, like the Denali Jeep® Backcountry
Safari.
 Fairbanks began
as a Gold Rush town and has been thriving ever since.
Here you may inspect the TransAlaska Pipeline, just outside
of town. Or treat yourself to a cruise on the old-style
sternwheeler, Riverboat Discovery. Pay a visit to Gold
Dredge #8, and try your hand at panning.
 Skagway was
one of the liveliest towns in the hemisphere in 1898,
when it was the gateway to Gold Rush Country. And it hasn’t
lost a particle of its spirit. Here you’ll overnight
at Skagway Mountain View RV Park. Located just a short
walk from your campground, the whole downtown is a National
Historic Park, with its well-trodden boardwalks and false-fronted
saloons. Shopping is fun here, for anything from gold
nugget jewelry to
original works of Alaskan art.
 The
Alaska Highway
This historic road began as a one-lane supply line to Alaska at the outbreak
of World War II. Today it runs from Dawson Creek, BC, for 1,520 miles to
Fairbanks. Along the way you might spot moose, caribou and Dall sheep. Kluane
National Park and Preserve, between Whitehorse and Beaver Creek,
is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. It contains some of Canada’s highest
peaks and is a prime wildlife-viewing area. The Alaska Highway skirts crystal-clear,
glacier-fed Kluane Lake for 40 miles while the snowclad, 7,000-ft.-plus Kluane
Ranges parallel the highway to the west. Take sidetrips into the park for
trout fishing, gold panning, walking the tundra and marveling at colorful
wildflowers. The scenery is incredible. You may glimpse distant giants of
the St. Elias Mountain Range.
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Yukon
Whitehorse, capital
of Yukon Territory, is a friendly modern city
that provides vivid reminders of its Gold Rush
beginnings. Here, on the banks of the Yukon River,
the prospectors who struggled up from Skagway
had their first chance to dry out after running
the treacherous rapids of the Yukon River. You
may visit the grand old sternwheeler, S.S. Klondike,
permanently anchored on dry land by the riverside.
Take the whole family for an evening of hilarious
history at the Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue.
Dawson City is
a perfectly preserved Gold Rush town. Hardly anything
has changed since the boom days when thousands descended
on the town to get rich quick.
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