2022 Yukon Alaska tour

by Motorcoach

Our itinerary has changed significantly from previous years

to enhance your Alaskan experience 

19 Days June 2-20, 2022
Enjoy the beauty of Yukon and Alaska
 
Day 1 - We start our travels making our way from Red Deer to Grand Prairie. Travelling west across Alberta’s foothill country, completing our day in Grande Prairie the seventh largest city in Alberta.
 Accommodations Servus Plus Inn & Suites 780-538-3900

Day 2 - We start our day visiting the unique architectural design of the Philip J Currie Museum of paleontology, Canada’s newest world class museum. Continuing on Highway 43, we travel through Beaverlodge home of the giant beaver statue. After a stop at South Peace Museum we head to Dawson Creek for photos at Mile Zero sign of the Alaska Highway.  Our day is complete in Fort St. John our first day along the Alaska Highway.
 Accommodations Pommeroy Hotel Fort St. John 250-262-3233



Day 3 - We leave southern civilization behind making our way to Pink Mountain a unique combination of altitude, latitude and geology.  Enjoy the scenic view and take a few snapshots.  Continuing on the Alaska Highway, a monumental project started during WWII fearing an impending attack, construction crews worked simultaneously on several sections between Dawson Creek and Fairbanks. The project was completed in only 9 months.
 Our final destination for the day is picturesque Muncho Lake.  Dinner is included in your tour package tonight.
 Northern Rockies Lodge 800-663-5269



Day 4 - After enjoying your breakfast, we depart to Liard Hot Springs, the second largest hot springs in Canada, for a relaxing soak.
Our travels take us to the Gateway of the Yukon, Watson Lake.  Be sure to go for a walk in sign post forest....look for the Frontier Bus sign!!  Coffee this afternoon in Teslin, take a look through the wildlife gallery.  Be sure to have an extra snack as it will be a late arrival into the capital of Yukon, Whitehorse.
  Accommodations next three nights Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500

Day 5 – An early departure for our trip on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. We will stop in Carcross for morning coffee, then board the train at Fraser BC for our one way journey to Skagway AK. (Passport needed) Enjoy time in Skagway, including the Days of 98 show, before we board our coach back to Whitehorse.

Day 6 – Our day begins exploring Whitehorse with a guided city tour, then a visit to the S.S. Klondike, one of the sternwheelers running freight on the Yukon river between Whitehorse and Dawson City between 1929-1950. The rest of the day is yours to relax or explore.


Day 7 - Taking you back in time, we travel the same route as the gold rush prospectors to Dawson City. Dawson City is a national historic treasure preserving the old buildings from the goldrush period. Stops along the way at Carmacks, a village on the Yukon River, and Moose Creek Lodge.
                                                              Accommodations next two nights Triple J Hotel 867-993-5323

 Day 8 – A day of exploring starts with a tour of Dawson City boasting 8 National Historic Sites of Canada. Then a visit to Dredge #4.  After lunch we visit an active mine site with a chance to strike it rich gold panning!!  The rest of the day can be enjoyed on your own. Take in Dawson museum, Jack London or Robert Service cabins, Diamond Tooth Gertie’s casino.
                              Don’t forget to have a Sourtoe cocktail in the Dawson Hotel!!!


      
Day 9 – Passports required today as we travel the Top of the World Highway to Fairbanks.  This highway gives you a sense of the vastness of the land, traveling through unique settlements like Chicken and Tok.  We cross into Alaska at Little Gold Creek crossing and from there we work our way to Chicken, one of the few surviving gold rush towns in Alaska. Keith mushes forward to Tok, the Sled Dog capital of Alaska.  After a few snapshots and a coffee we continue on the Alaska Highway to Delta Junction at Milepost 1422. Here stands the last town on the Alaska Highway, built during WWII to connect the contiguous United States with Alaska, and home to Ft. Greely, Alaska Missile Defense Command, and the Pogo Gold Mine. The City of Delta Junction is Alaska at its finest, located in the fertile Tanana River Valley and surrounded by 3 spectacular mountain ranges – the White Mountains to the north, the Granite Mountains to the southeast, and the Alaska Range to the southwest. After a long travel day we arrive in Fairbanks late tonight.
          2 nights at Sophie Station Suites 907-479-3650




Day 10 – After breakfast we climb on board an authentic Alaskan sternwheeler, the Riverboat Discovery, and take a journey back in time along the Chena and Tanana Rivers. Cruise and experience the area's history and beauty with native Alaskans who call this land home.  Afternoon guided city tour of the Golden Heart City, Fairbanks just 190kms south of the Arctic Circle. Tonight, a true Alaskan Experience, at the Alaska Salmon Bake, operating in historic Pioneer Park for over 37 years. Dinner and the Palace Theatre show included.


Day 11 – Today we make our way to the Denali National Park and Preserve which encompasses 6 million acres of Alaska’s interior wilderness. It’s centerpiece is 20,310-ft. high Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak.  Here we take part in the Denali Natural History tour focusing on the rich natural and cultural history of the park.
   Accommodations Denali Bluffs Hotel 907-205-1872



Day 12 – Making our way to Anchorage today we stop in Talkeetna for you to have lunch and time to explore.  Before arriving in Anchorage, we will have a tour and tasting of birch syrup at the Alaska Wild Harvest.
Accommodations next three nights Crowne Plaza 907-433-4100

Day 13 - We start out with a city tour of Alaska’s largest city, located in the south-central part of the state on the Cook Inlet. The city is also a gateway to nearby wilderness areas and mountains including the Chugach, Kenai and Talkeetna. It's known for its cultural sites, Free afternoon to enjoy the city.




Day 14 - Our adventurous day starts by traveling to Seward taking the Coastal classic train ride of 50 picturesque miles along the Turnagain arm, a body of water with North America’s second highest tidal change. Once in Seward our mode of transportation changes to a boat as we take in the Resurrection Bay tour.  With its jagged cliffs, seabirds, marine wildlife and alpine glaciers you will definitely have a few picture taking moments.  After lunch at Fox Island Lodge, we make our way back to port where we board the bus to return to Anchorage.

Day 15 – We say goodbye to Anchorage and make our way to Valdez.  Along the way we stop in Palmer at the Muskox farm where we get a close up experience of these magnificent paleolithic ruminants and a lunch break before arriving in Valdez.
Accommodations next two nights Totem Hotel & Suites 907-835-4443

Day 16 – A full day spent cruising the majestic waters of Prince William Sound from Valdez to Meares Glacier where typically you will see orca whales, harbor seals, sea lions and much more!


Day 17 -  A stop at Wrangell St.Elias National Park, the largest U.S. national park, it equals six Yellowstone’s, with peaks upon peaks and glaciers after glaciers. Tonight we arrive at Tok, AK.
      Accommodations  Young’s Motel 907-883-4411

Day 18 –Passports required today as we travel back to Canada and Whitehorse.   We travel through Tetlin Wildlife refuge, a dynamic landscape of forest, wetlands, tundra, lakes, mountains and glacial rivers bounded by the snowy peaks of the Alaska Range.  Beaver Creek is where we enter into Canada. Our next stop is The Kluane Museum of Natural History offering world-class wildlife exhibits.  Also displayed are Native clothing, tools and weapons of the Southern Tutchone people as well as minerals and gemstones that are found in the Yukon.  A coffee stop in Haines junction, for some sweets, then on to Whitehorse.
  Accommodations  Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500

Day 19 – Our route home today takes us on a flight from Whitehorse to Calgary where a coach will meet us bringing us back to Red Deer


$5,960.00 per person (double occupancy)
$8,100.00 per person (single occupancy) 


 
Includes: Accommodations and luggage handling; entrance to the Phillip J Currie museum, South Peace Museum, Liard Hot springs, guided city tours of Whitehorse, Dawson City, Fairbanks and Anchorage, White pass & Yukon Rail, SS Klondkike, Days of 98 Show, Dredge #4 and active Gold mine tour, River Boat Discovery,  Alaska Salmon Bake and Palace theatre show,  Denali Natural History tour, Alaska Wild Harvest Birch syrup tour, Alaska train to Seward, Kenai Fjords boat cruise, Palmer Muskox, Stan Stephenson cruise,  Wrangell St Elias National Park, Kluane museum of Natural History, Flight home, breakfasts everyday, 5 lunches and 2 suppers (including Alaskan Salmon Bake).


Departs from Red Deer at the Black Knight Inn parking lot at 8AM
Please note: Cars cannot be parked at this site for this many days.


For reservations or more information, please contact
FRONTIER BUS LINES LTD. 1027 Township Road 391 Red Deer County, AB T4E 0P8
403-347-4990                 Toll Free 1-888-Let-S-Bus (538-7287)




Frontier Bus Lines Ltd. Reserves the right to cancel any trip with less than 25 persons.  We reserve the right to make any changes in plans which may be necessary due to local conditions, or which may add to the comfort and well-being of the group.