My wife and I have been camping in Alaska for the past four years and we seem to keep picking this area to go back to every year.
I am not much of an athletic type person, but I do enjoy exploring the remote territories in Alaska.
When you are camping, you have access to more area of Alaska than you do if you would stay in a hotel. I enjoy the Dyea campground by the Chilkoot Trail Unit entrance. The campground is so close to the historical town of Dyea that this campground is my favorite. I can just ride the mountain bike to town with the wife and enjoy a day of sightseeing.
The only thing my wife does not like about this campground is that it s small with only twenty-two campsites and no hook ups. We usually stay here for a week before we move on to a new area. I have to visit the Denali Campgrounds for a couple of weeks when I go to Alaska. The wife gets a little paranoid because we are in bear country, but if she would remember to keep the food in the car, we would be fine. When I am camping in Alaska, I like to fine campgrounds close to the things the country has to offer. I like to see the Northern Lights by Fairbanks and the do some gold panning.
I have fun walking on the glacier and exploring the area around it. I have a great time camping in Alaska. I find that the land is untouched and natural while the air is fresh and wakes you up in the morning feeling refreshed. Well that is when the bear do not come a knocking. I just keep going back and finding different things that I missed the year before.
Josh R.
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Going out in the cold is not something that is generally my favorite idea. But yet the Northern Lights of Alaska called to me. I really wanted the opportunity to see them and get up close and personal.
After all, that is an experience that is generally only available once a in a lifetime unless you actually live in Alaska or another suitable place and since the state is a bit cold overall for me it was only going to occur once. Of course, with the cold temperatures sleeping on the ground or just a tent was completely unacceptable and I did not want to deal with the hassles of finding a hotel.
My solution was brilliant and simple. Get a pop up camper rental Alaska and take a space heater with me. I decided to venture into the depths of Alaska for the once in a lifetime experience that I was craving.
I decided to go to Chugach State Park, which is considered the 3rd biggest park in America. In terms of special occasions, this was certainly going to be a really exciting experience for me. I have to admit that I was thoroughly excited to find out that the Northern Lights was even more gorgeous than I had ever anticipated.
Overall, it was one of the most exciting trips that I have taken in a very long time. Of course, aside from the Northern Lights themselves, I took plenty of time to explore some of the other fabulous aspects of the Alaska parks that are just as beautiful.
Going to Alaska may not be high on your list of things to do, but it certainly is well worth your time and very much worth the effort to visit. As you can imagine, a pop up camper rental Alaska was a very wise investment and added greatly to the trip.