{"id":2217,"date":"2022-08-16T03:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T03:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2022-08-16T03:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T03:20:03","slug":"week-13-anchorage-to-delta-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/week-13-anchorage-to-delta-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13: Anchorage to Delta Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After SalmonFest we headed for Anchorage for a couple nights in an AirBNB to do laundry and get a brake warning light on the Sprinter checked out (turned out it was just a bad sensor). On the way to Anchorage we stopped at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center<\/a> for more bear watching. Not much to see or do in Anchorage, but we did check out a great dive bar called Darwin’s Theory,<\/a> and we had steak and king crab at the nearby Club Paris<\/a>, which claims to have the same menu since the 1950s when it opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then drove north, heading for a stretch of the Richardson Highway<\/a> between Glenallen and Delta Junction, hoping to escape the daily rain near the ocean. We found lots of great campgrounds and boondocking spots along the way. We got a great spot near the lake at the mostly empty Paxson Lake BLM campground<\/a>. We stayed in a large boondocking area<\/a> with amazing views of the Gulkana Glacier and a hike to the glacier across a really scary suspension bridge. And, at the Lost Lake Trail Campground<\/a>, outside of Delta Junction, we had the entire campground to ourselves! Good hiking and kayaking with flirtatious ducks, and amazing sunsets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full set of photos for the week are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great free camping area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fun bridge (NOT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Castner Glacier Ice Cave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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After SalmonFest we headed for Anchorage for a couple nights in an AirBNB to do laundry and get a brake warning light on the Sprinter checked out (turned out it was just a bad sensor). On the way to Anchorage we stopped at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center for more bear watching. Not much toContinue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}