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Driving and Ferry Routes

We cruised on the Alaska Marine Highway (ferry) to and from Bellingham, WA, and Juneau, AK, as well as between Juneau and Skagway, AK. (There are no roads into Juneau.) We drove our classic Thunderbirds in the Interior of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, included stops in Whitehorse, Tok, Beaver Creek, Delta Junction, North Pole, Fairbanks, Healy, Denali National Park, Wasilla, Anchorage, Palmer, Glennallen, and Haines Junction.
 
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Ferry Route: Bellingham/Juneau

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Proposed Driving Portion of Trip; approximately 2,000 miles

Itinerary

Since we didn't know what the road conditions would really be like in the Yukon Territory or Alaska, we 'winged it' for most of the driving portion of this trip -- very few advance hotel reservations. We also didn't know how much time we would spend sightseeing. The only certainties were when we would be in Bellingham, Juneau and Skagway since we were committed to meeting ferries at these locations. The following was our very tentative itinerary which turned out to be pretty close to the actual itinerary:
 
8/21-8/24   Ferry from Bellingham to Juneau
8/24-8/25   Juneau
8/25           Ferry, Juneau to Skagway
8/26           Skagway to Whitehorse
8/27           Whitehorse to Beaver Creek
8/28           Beaver Creek to Delta Junction
8/29           Delta Junction to Fairbanks
8/30           Fairbanks to Healy/Denali National Park
8/31           Denali National Park to Wasilla (actually spent the day in Denali)
9/1             Wasilla to Anchorage (actually drove from Denali to Anchorage)
9/2             Anchorage to Palmer to Glennallen
9/3             Glennallen to Beaver Creek
9/4             Beaver Creek to Haines Junction
9/5             Haines Junction to Skagway
9/6             Ferry, Skagway to Juneau
9/7             Juneau
9/8-9/11     Ferry, Juneau to Bellingham
 

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