Jul 7, 2012 - Denali State Park

60 Degrees and Overcast From Denali National Park to Denali State Park, 101 Miles Stayed at Byers Lake Campground A very uneventful and disappointing day. We planned to stay another night in the area because there are supposed to be very good views of The Mountain (Denali) from the state park, but it was a very cloudy, drizzly day, and nothing was visible except in the imagination! The first campground we pulled into with the best potential view was nothing but an overnight parking lot, so with nothing to see, we went on. It got cooler...

Jun 30, 2010 - June 28th, Deneli State Park

We started the day by trying to reserve a site for another day here at Denali. They were all booked up. Oh well, so , we started down the road. We drove 93 miles today, stopping at the Byers Lake state campground. On the way we stopped for a short while and started to hike a trail. The mosquitoes were terrible the trail seemed little traveled so we didn't go far before returning to the RV. At 2 o'clock we stopped at the Byers Lake campground. We took a walk along the lake shore. The lake just had ice out 2 weeks ago. This lake was very...

Jul 29, 2008 - Heading north from Anchorage

Monday morning I spent a couple hours getting my web updates and pictures uploaded and Dave got the truck cleaned up. We have made it a point to stop at visitors centers and ask about the area and pick up information, well in Anchorage we got a newspaper of places and events and there was a coupon for a free coin at Oxford gold assaying & refining corp. Well, this is not a tourist trap, it is a real gold assaying firm where the gold miners bring there gold to sell. The doors and windows have bars and are locked at all times, we rang the...

Jul 19, 2008 - Denali State Park

July 18&19 We left Talkeetna in the morning. It was still raining although not as heavily. We drove about 50 miles to Denali State Park, Byers Campground. In the afternoon it began to clear and we walked up to the Alaska Veterans Memorial. Large stones one for each branch of the service and the flag of that service branch form a semi circle with an Aleut machine gunner statue out in front to honor the Aleutian fighters in World War two who recaptured an island taken by the Japanese. There is also a great view of Mt McKinley to the west on a...

Jun 28, 2006 - Veteran's Memorial on the Parks Highway, AK

One of the best Veteran's Memorials we have seen anywhere. Tasteful, quiet, and peaceful. And most people blow right past it on their way to the park. Their loss. The sculpture is of two Native Alaskan Scouts and is carved from a solid piece of granite. No sissy-lala limestone stuff here! They're looking at Mount Denali. Set in a beautiful grove of trees.