Originally Posted by
Richmond_Surrey
I fixed picture sharing on Google.
Ok, my initial route is: Anchorage - Valdez - Tok - Fairbanks - Denali - Talkeetna - Anchorage. I thought about skipping going to Tok and instead, directly from Valdez to Fairbanks if road is more picturesque.
Unfortunately I can't take ferry to or from Valdez due to dates, no ferries. I'm going anti-clockwise, because I have to wait until Denali is open to everyone after 21st of September. If I go clockwise, I will be in Denali during lottery days and won't get access to the park.
Okay, so you're driving the Glennallen - Valdez section of the Richardson twice, got it.
In that case I'd just take the Richardson all the way to Fairbanks. The time/scenery tradeoff for the Tok cutoff isn't worth it IMO.
None of my business, but are you using miles/Avios for the trip? If so (or even if not) I always advocate people getting off the highway system at some point, so I'll just throw out the idea of taking a couple of days to fly up to Nome from Anchorage. You could get a vehicle and drive out some of the roads into the Seward Peninsula. Look at
http://www.alaska.org/destination/nome/scenic-drives and/or
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...ewardpeninsula regarding this very off-the-beaten-path option. A round trip from ANC to OME is around $300, or 15K Avios. Hotel and car expenses will be comparable to Anchorage. Daylight will be shorter of course, but not terribly different than Fairbanks.
Nome is a fascinating historic town, there's a lot of wildlife on the Seward Peninsula, and there will probably be some daft underwater gold miners still walking around the bottom of the Bering Sea in September. Autumn color on the tundra will be stunning.
Anyway, just a thought.