7-21-09
We arrived at Denali camp ground and spent the first night. It is as stepping off place to get into Teklanika campground. Teklanika is about 30 Miles down the road. You are not allowed to take your tow car and you reservations must be for at least 3 days. Once you are here and have parked your rig you can only travel by Bus and then only to West. If you go east past the checkpoint , your reservations are canceled and in order to get back into Teklanika you have to get new reservations and pay again. The reason is they do not want traffic in and out of the park
Today we took a tour bus and went for a 91 mile trip into the park all the way to Kantishna where the road ends. They had other tours and if I were to do it over again I would opt for the shorter 66 mile tour. Mileage I speak of is one way. The bus seats are not very comfortable but they made plenty of stops for restrooms and rest breaks, but at the end of the day it felt like a very long bus ride.
We did see a lot of wild life, several bears, elk, caribou and several birds including bald eagles. unfortunately those we saw were a considerable distance away.
We also got to see Mt. McKinley and took several pictures which I hope to post along with some of the animals we saw. We were lucky to have seen Mt. McKinley on a clear day, we were told that happens about 30% of the time.
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