Trip planning
Getting to Alaska
Visitors arrive by air, highway or ship
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The highway's southern terminus is at Dawson Creek, in northern British Columbia, and the highway officially ends at Delta Junction, Alaska. From Dawson Creek it's 1,700 miles to Fairbanks or 1,900 to Anchorage.
Services, ranging from fuel stations to restaurants and hotels, are available the length of the highway.
Dawson Creek is accessible by highways leading up from Montana and Washington.
Cruise travel
Almost a dozen cruise lines serve Alaska waters. Most cruise passengers see the Inside Passage -- the route along the islands stretching north from British Columbia past Ketchikan and Juneau and on to Haines and Skagway. Cruise liners commonly call at Glacier Bay National Park and Sitka as well.
Weeklong cruises may be either round trip or one way. The round-trip cruises start and end in such ports as Vancouver or Seattle. The one-way trips start at a southern port and usually end in Southcentral Alaska at either Seward or Whittier, near Anchorage (or they make that trip in reverse). Passengers may extend their vacation by arranging rail or car trips before or after their cruise.
Railroad travel
Alaska and Canada have yet to develop an international rail connection, except for an excursion train based in Skagway.
Rail fans, however, can take the Canadian rail system to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and there board an Alaska-bound ferry.
The Alaska Railroad provides passenger service from Anchorage south to the cruise port of Seward and north to Denali National Park and Fairbanks. The White Pass and Yukon Route railroad runs from Skagway along an old Klondike gold rush route, with day trips reaching as far as Bennett Lake, British Columbia.
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