Originally Posted by
oldpenny16
Here's my personal opinion on paying to see bears. Don't. I attract bears and can turn them up in Alaska even going out to get the mail. Caribou are a long way off your chosen path. Alaska is BIG! The bus tours leave on their route through Denali very early in the morning and take a very long day to do. You can ride the hop on hop off buses, but you need to know what you are doing. The drive from Anchorage to Denali can be darn slow during tourist season. All it takes is a couple slow motor homes and you have to cool your heels.
Frankly I think you are trying to do too much. You won't enjoy all that running around.
Read your MILEPOST and take it seriously.
www.milepost.com
Thank you and the more I think about it, the more I'm going to seriously research
SRQGuy's itinerary as the one we're going to do instead of the one I came up with.
As for the bears - assuming we scrap the flight to see them, are there any places that offer a decent chance to see bears in the wild in late May along the route he took, or perhaps with a short and easy detour that won't take much time out of the itinerary?
If there is a relatively easy to way to do it, we can work that into the schedule, otherwise we'll leave it off for this trip.