Alaska – Parks Highway - Anchorage

Sunrise 4:21am Sunset 11:42pm

June 20 Had to take a few morning pictures of our RV with Mt. McKinley in the background before we left Denali North View State campground today.

We had about a three hour drive to our next stop, Anchorage. Along the way, right before Wasilla, a moose crossed the road in front of us.. We have seen a few moose, but I haven't be able to get a picture of one until now.

We did drive through Wasilla, but no Palins were in sight. Wasilla is a bigger place than I thought at least on the Glenn Highway. Lots of familiar stores and eating places along the left side of the road as we traveled south.

We got to Anchorage at approximately 2pm and lo and behold found another sod roofed visitor center downtown. Anchorage is a big city.. population of 256,000+. Probably the biggest city we have been in since we drove through Calgary, CA. Seemed funny to have so many vehicles and lanes of traffic! Population is fairly sparse on the drive through the Yukon Territory to Fairbanks.

Still beautiful scenery in Anchorage

We decided to have dinner in downtown Anchorage and were directed to Humpy's. This is advertised as a place with pub style food and although it doesn't look it from the outside, this place was packed inside- about 200 people, hardly any seats left. It seems to be a popular local restaurant. We had the grilled plank salmon and it was very good.