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The Interior

Guided Tour activities in The Interior

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    K2 Aviation Flightseeing

    K2 Aviation Flightseeing When in Talkeetna, it's pretty much mandatory to go flightseeing around Mt McKinley. It's not cheap, but on a clear day it's so worthwhile that it's one of the best bargains in this expensive state.

    There are five local flightseeing operations, all well established, all similar with regards to safety, professionalism and price, and all recipients of fawning reviews from their customers. Most offer three different tours: a circuit of Mt McKinley, a ski-equipped landing on one of its glaciated flanks, and a wildlife tour when the peak is clouded over.

    The main difference between the companies is the planes they use: some have small aircraft that…

    reviewed

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    Hudson Air Service Flightseeing

    When in Talkeetna, it's pretty much mandatory to go flightseeing around Mt McKinley. It's not cheap, but on a clear day it's so worthwhile that it's one of the best bargains in this expensive state.

    There are five local flightseeing operations, all well established, all similar with regards to safety, professionalism and price, and all recipients of fawning reviews from their customers. Most offer three different tours: a circuit of Mt McKinley, a ski-equipped landing on one of its glaciated flanks, and a wildlife tour when the peak is clouded over.

    The main difference between the companies is the planes they use: some have small aircraft that stay below 12,000ft but can…

    reviewed

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    Talkeetna Aero Services Flightseeing

    When in Talkeetna, it's pretty much mandatory to go flightseeing around Mt McKinley. It's not cheap, but on a clear day it's so worthwhile that it's one of the best bargains in this expensive state.

    There are five local flightseeing operations, all well established, all similar with regards to safety, professionalism and price, and all recipients of fawning reviews from their customers. Most offer three different tours: a circuit of Mt McKinley, a ski-equipped landing on one of its glaciated flanks, and a wildlife tour when the peak is clouded over.

    The main difference between the companies is the planes they use: some have small aircraft that stay below 12,000ft but can…

    reviewed

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    Talkeetna Air Taxi Flightseeing

    When in Talkeetna, it's pretty much mandatory to go flightseeing around Mt McKinley. It's not cheap, but on a clear day it's so worthwhile that it's one of the best bargains in this expensive state.

    There are five local flightseeing operations, all well established, all similar with regards to safety, professionalism and price, and all recipients of fawning reviews from their customers. Most offer three different tours: a circuit of Mt McKinley, a ski-equipped landing on one of its glaciated flanks, and a wildlife tour when the peak is clouded over.

    The main difference between the companies is the planes they use: some have small aircraft that stay below 12,000ft but can…

    reviewed

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    Doug Geeting Aviation Flightseeing

    When in Talkeetna, it's pretty much mandatory to go flightseeing around Mt McKinley. It's not cheap, but on a clear day it's so worthwhile that it's one of the best bargains in this expensive state.

    There are five local flightseeing operations, all well established, all similar with regards to safety, professionalism and price, and all recipients of fawning reviews from their customers. Most offer three different tours: a circuit of Mt McKinley, a ski-equipped landing on one of its glaciated flanks, and a wildlife tour when the peak is clouded over.

    The main difference between the companies is the planes they use: some have small aircraft that stay below 12,000ft but can…

    reviewed

  6. Town Walking Tour

    Residents say Eagle has the state's largest 'museum system,' boasting five restored turn-of-the-20th-century buildings. If you're spending a day here, the best way to see the buildings and learn the town's history is to head to Judge Wickersham's Courthouse (cnr Berry St & 1st Ave) at 09:00, when the Eagle Historical Society commences its three-hour town walking tour.

    You'll see the Courthouse, Eagle City Hall, the Log Church, Fort Egbert, Redmen Hall, the Customs Building Museum and Amundsen Park, where a plaque commemorates explorer Roald Amundsen's visit. Tours may be available at other times through special arrangement.

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  7. Gold Dredge No 8 tours

    Off the old Steese Hwy at Mile 10 Goldstream Rd, this five-deck, 250ft dredge was built in 1928, operated until 1959, and was named a national historic site in 1984. Today perhaps Alaska's most visited dredge, No 8 is still making money. There are on-the-hour one-hour tours from 09:30 to 15:30 daily; for an additional fee you can also indulge in gold panning and the all-you-can-eat Miner's Lunch.

    reviewed

  8. Arctic Caribou Inn Oilfield Tour

    This two-hour ordeal is the only way to gain access to the oil fields and the ocean. Taking place several times daily, it begins with a cloying corporate video and continues with a perfunctory bus ride to the waterfront, where you have the option of taking a quick, frigid dip. You must sign up for this tour a day in advance in order to clear security.

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  9. Kantishna Air Taxi Flightseeing

    Kantishna Air Taxi Flightseeing flies out of Kantishna and Healy. The company offers hour-long flightseeing excursions around Mt McKinley, direct flights between Kantishna and the park entrance and flights from Kantishna to the park entrance with a 20-minute detour by Mt McKinley. Two versions of a bus-out/fly-back day tour are also available.

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  10. Era Helicopters Flightseeing

    Era Helicopters Flightseeing will take you up on a 50-minute Mt McKinley tour (around US$270) or a 75-minute flight that includes a glacier landing (around US$370). Heli-hiking trips are also available. The helipad is on the north side of the Nenana River bridge, at the south end of Glitter Gulch.

    reviewed

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  12. Aramark Tours

    Aramark Tours offers a five-hour Natural History Tour to Primrose Ridge, a four- to five-hour Teklanika Tundra Wilderness Tour to the Teklanika River Overlook, and a six- to eight-hour Tundra Wildlife Tour to Toklat River. All include narration, hot drinks and a snack or box lunch.

    reviewed

  13. Northern Alaska Tour Company

    This is the granddaddy of the Dalton Hwy tour companies, offering all sorts of packages, including a three-day van trip to Prudhoe Bay that includes lodging at Wiseman and Deadhorse and flights back to Fairbanks. Food is not covered.

    reviewed

  14. Everts Air Alaska

    Paddling the Yukon from Eagle to Circle? Everts Air Alaska may be able to make a flag stop in Circle to get you back to Eagle; otherwise you're looking at a two-stage flight through Fairbanks or a very long drive.

    reviewed

  15. Alaska Flying Tours

    The Arctic Circle may be an imaginary line, but it's become one of Fairbanks' biggest draws, with small air-charter companies doing booming business flying travelers on sightseeing excursions across it.

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  16. Trans Arctic Circle Treks Ltd

    The Arctic Circle may be an imaginary line, but it's become one of Fairbanks' biggest draws, with small air-charter companies doing booming business flying travelers on sightseeing excursions across it.

    reviewed

  17. Northern Alaska Tour Co

    The Arctic Circle may be an imaginary line, but it's become one of Fairbanks' biggest draws, with small air-charter companies doing booming business flying travelers on sightseeing excursions across it.

    reviewed

  18. Manley Boat Charters

    Frank Gurtler of Manley Boat Charters can take you to catch salmon, char and grayling, or just show you the sights along the broad Tanana River, just upstream from its confluence with the Yukon.

    reviewed

  19. Fly Denali Flightseeing

    Fly Denali Flightseeing is based in Healy and has tours of various durations and routes. Their three-hour flight includes the only glacier landing available from the park entrance.

    reviewed

  20. Denali Air Flightseeing

    Denali Air Flightseeing offers a narrated flight of about an hour around the mountain. Flights leave from the company's airstrip at Mile 229.5 of George Parks Hwy.

    reviewed

  21. Alaska Timberline Aviation Flightseeing

    You may be able to get cheaper flightseeing deals with this smaller-scale local operator.

    reviewed

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  23. Atkins Guiding & Flying Service Flightseeing

    You may be able to get cheaper flightseeing deals with this smaller-scale local operator.

    reviewed

  24. Trans Arctic Circle Treks

    Covers lodging but not food.

    reviewed