RV site in Alaska interior

[greeholiday]

Finalizing plans for first RV trip to Alaska next month. Have all plans set, but looking for campsite suggestions for Talkeetna area for 1 night and Fairbank area for 2 nights (flying out of Fairbanks). Also welcome suggestions for interesting stops between Denali and Fairbanks.

Thanks all. Very helpful forum.

[stickdog]

In most pulloffs unless there is a NO OVERNIGHT PARKING feel free to take a nap. If your there June 21 there is no night. As someone already mentioned there is a pulloff north of cantwell where there were several rvs parked for the three days we were there. One was a 5thwheel unhooked and a couple MHs with toads unattached. There are several SP along the highways with cheap overnight parking. Some like most rv parks in AK are not much more than parking lots with pit toilets. Your not there for the rv park your there for the majestery of the scenery and with luck the wildlife. The fishing is great too.

It would have to be a real slow night for SP to bother you in any pulloff those guys cover a lot of territory sometimes for RVers that figured they could drive another 100 mile beause the sun was up.

[Greyghost]

Another place to visit is the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center. It's one of the most all inclusive we've seen with regards to the culture of an area.

[fanrgs]

Just got back from Fairbanks and the best RV park in proximity to downtown, the airport, UAF and its wonderful Museum of the North, and, most importantly, Fred Meyer is the Rivers Edge Campground. It is just off the Parks Highway near the east end of the Chena River bridge.

We stayed at the Riverview RV Park on Badger Road. It is also on the Chena River but nowhere near downtown. It is located way east of Fort Wainwright and several miles north of the Alaska/Richardson Highway. If we had been with kids, we would not have stayed that far out of town.

[greeholiday]

Thanks for the good advice. What about in the Fairbanks area? Places to camp...don't miss things to do (kids are 12 and 15)?

[Ernest]

Fer2005 wrote:
Talkeetna Camper Park CG. About a 1/2 mile from town. Great place for a couple of days.

X2 Stayed there in 2014. Do forget to try Alaskan Brewing Ice Ax Ale.

[loggenrock]

In Talkeetna we just parked on the street for the night in front of the Forest Service office... ST

[bobsallyh]

At North Pole, there is a park on the river. Can't remember the exact name but something like "On the River" or River View, something like that. It is just outside Fairbanks. And by the way, they just moved Santa Claus last week rom one location to another but on the same "souvenir" property.

[WE-C-USA]

We spent a few days boondocking along the Susitna River, at the bridge on Parks hwy.

[RoyF]

I was in Talkeetna in 1977 (to climb Mt. McKinnely) when it was just a bar, the Talkeetna Roadhouse, and the Fairview Inn. It was still pretty much unspoiled when I was there in 1993.

When I returned in 2012, it had really changed. Now the road into town is lined with vendors selling T-shirts and souvenirs of all sorts, and the busloads from Princess and other cruise ships arrive one after the other. I'll skip Talkeetna on the next trip.

[Fer2005]

Talkeetna Camper Park CG. About a 1/2 mile from town. Great place for a couple of days.

[alaska_dennis]

gemert wrote:

lucy6194 wrote:
There is a campground in Cantwell. However I'd rather go up the Denali hwy about 1 mile and pull in on side of the road. Quiet and if lucky view of "the mountain".

Go up the highway about a mile from where?

At Cantwell is the Denali highway which goes from Cantwell to Paxon.
I would do that also the denali highway is a very scenic drive but is almost all gravel road. So no rental rv's normally.

Another place sort of close to talkeetna is Byers Lake campground which is north about 30 miles.

[cewillis]

gemert wrote:

Go up the highway about a mile from where?

From Cantwell, which is north of Talkeetna, nearer to the part. The Denali Highway, Ak 8, is (or was when I was there) a great road from which to find boondocking spots, and great views of the mountain.

[gemert]

lucy6194 wrote:
There is a campground in Cantwell. However I'd rather go up the Denali hwy about 1 mile and pull in on side of the road. Quiet and if lucky view of "the mountain".

Go up the highway about a mile from where?

[lucy6194]

There is a campground in Cantwell. However I'd rather go up the Denali hwy about 1 mile and pull in on side of the road. Quiet and if lucky view of "the mountain".