Thursday, 26 July 2018 – Travel day to Glennallen

The drive from Anchorage to Glennalllen was very scenic with several large glaciers along the way.
Views of the Wrangell mountain with clouds over the tops
Maverick enjoying the trails around the Wrangell/St Elias NP visitor center

Our target today is the town of Glennallen. There really isn’t anything at Glennallen but it is halfway to Valdez. The drive was very beautiful and it took us about 3 hours to get here. We booked the Northern Nights RV Park. Only a small number of sites have full hookups but since we reserved ahead we got a super nice back-in with the works. Once settled in we took off for the Wrangell, St Elias National Park Visitor Center. The visitor center is about 10 miles out of Glennallen. We checked out the roadmaps and checked with the rangers. The main road in the park is to the Kennicott Visitor center down a 60 mile rough gravel road that takes about 3 ½ hours one way. We definitely didn’t have time for that now, but will consider if we want to try that on the way back from Valdez. We did try out the short trails around the visitor center with Maverick. They were nice short trails with no one else on them. Maverick enjoyed running off leash for a while after being in the coach all day. On the way back we stopped at a scenic overlook that had a beautiful, elevated view of the Wrangell mountains that form the centerpiece of the National Park. Temperatures are about 70 deg F with intermittent very light rain.