Vacations By Rail
Alaska Circle Tour Rail & Car
8 daysfrom $4,195
Vacations By Rail · Independent rail vacation
Alaska Wilderness Tour
Experience Anchorage, Talkeetna, Denali National Park, and Fairbanks; with six nights of hotel accommodations, a jetboat excursion and a riverboat cruise.
Day by day
- Day 1overnight: Anchorage
Arriving in Anchorage
Transfer on your own to your centrally located hotel and get accustomed to your surroundings; optional sightseeing trolley, Anchorage Museum visit, flightseeing or helicopter tour.
- Day 2overnight: Talkeetna
Seeing Alaska from the Denali Star
Board the Denali Star to Talkeetna through the Mat-Su Valley, with views of the Knik Arm and Chugach Mountains. In the afternoon, a jetboat excursion along the Talkeetna and Susitna Rivers; optional flightseeing excursion over Denali and its glaciers.
- Day 3overnight: Denali
Onward to Denali National Park
A leisurely morning in Talkeetna before reboarding the Denali Star, passing the Indian River, Hurricane Gulch, the Alaska Range, Healy Canyon and the Nenana River en route to Denali National Park.
- Day 4overnight: Denali
Getting to know the Denali wilderness
A narrated Tundra Wilderness Tour by bus on Denali National Park's single road, with photo stops and opportunities to spot Alaska's 'Big 5': bear, moose, caribou, wolves and Dall sheep.
- Day 5overnight: Fairbanks
Into Alaska's Golden Heart on the Denali Star
Explore Denali National Park independently, with options for hiking, flightseeing, dogsledding, off-roading or whitewater rafting, before boarding the Denali Star to Fairbanks for a two-night stay.
- Day 6overnight: Fairbanks
Discovering Fairbanks
Board the sternwheeler Riverboat Discovery to cruise the Chena and Tanana Rivers, stopping at a recreation of a traditional Athabascan village and a dog-sledding facility. Departures after September 2nd instead take a Fairbanks City Highlights tour by coach.
- Day 7
Tour Conclusion
Your journey concludes this morning; check out of your hotel and depart for home at leisure.
Included
- 6 nights' hotel accommodation
- Choice of Adventure Class or GoldStar Service on the Alaska Railroad
- All rail, boat and coach travel throughout your tour
- All guided tours and excursions
Not included
- Cancellation & Travel Insurance is not included in the price of the tour but can be arranged
- Flights and Airport transfers not included
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