Alaska Part 3 - McCarthy Road to Haines
After that, I made ferry reservation, and thus pinned down the date when I would have to be in Haines to catch it. I allowed four days to get from the Denali region to Haines, which are both in Alaska. However, to get from one place to the other, I had to to cross back thru the Yukon and BC (Canada) again, a relatively long drive, to re-enter Alaska at Haines. I allowed some extra time so that I could drive down to Wrangell St-Elias National Park and McCarthy Road where I took an interesting, if somewhat uneventful 60 mile out-and-back (120 mile total) dirt road adventure along the Chitina River, boondocking for a night along the way. From McCarthy Road, I drove back up to Tok, and then southeast towards the Yukon, where I spent the second night just this side of the Canadian border at a free campground in the Tetlin Wildlife Refuge. Then I did the long drive back on the Alcan Highway thru the Yukon Territory again, where I stopped briefly at and camped at Lake Kluane. Thus I found myself in Canada again! I turned south at Haines Junction, to drive thru the Chilkat Pass, stopped at a native village, and re-entered the U.S. to get to Haines. I spent one more night and part of a day in Haines, exploring the town and the particularly the native art that we found there.
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