Saturday, June 4, 2011 – Leaving River’s Edge (Fairbanks) at 10:00 heading to Denali. Stopped for a break in the small town of Nenana. This is the little town, famous for their “Nenana Ice Classic.” They place a large tri-pod out on the middle of the river and you can buy raffle tickets and could win a lot of money depending on when the ice breaks. The tripod measures the exact date and time. It was a very nice drive today. We arrived in Denali at the RV park…not much more than a parking lot with hook-ups. The sites are very close together. Not what we imagined an Alaskan RV park to look like. But, of course we made the best of it. We set up. It was a lot colder and windier than the beautiful weather we’ve been used to in Fairbanks. We drove over to the Denali Visitor Center, got a map of the park and drove in. Not too far into the park, we pulled over because we had a great view of Mt. McKinley. Then we saw a moose, then a caribou. We came back to the RV park, went for a walk and then to Crow’s Nest (great view of Denali) for dinner.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 – Spike took us over to Denali Park in the vans, then we boarded a park bus (the only way to get further than the first 15 mile into the park is to take a park bus in) that took us into the park, a 59 mile ride. Really beautiful scenery…we saw caribou, Dall sheep, different bird species and a moose. We had the most boring bus driver…talked so slow with no personality. We stopped at the end of the 59 mile ride and had lunch and turned around and came back. On the ride back, most of the people on the bus fell asleep. But, we did see more wildlife, but sad to say…no grizzlies. That night Dot and Mike came by the motorhome and we had a nice visit with them.
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