7 Days in Denali National Park in Our Luxury Motorhome (ALASKA)

This is a part of Alaska we've been dreaming of. In fact, it's one of the most important parts of our Alaskan trip. We're headed to Denali National Park in hopes of seeing the ever-elusive Mount Denali, also known as Mount McKinley. Standing 20,310 feet tall, only 30 percent of visitors even get to take a peek of the mountain, with a staggering five percent seeing it in its totality. We, of course, want to be in that five percent. That's our main goal for the week. We start in a little town called Talkeetna, which is said to have one of the very best views of Denali, if it's clear that is. As we dive into this national park, we will keep one eye on Denali at all times in hopes of seeing the beautiful mountain. But first, if we haven't met before, we're the Shinpaws. We're a family of four who travels full-time, so we can make memories now. There is so much more to this video, from beautiful hikes to crazy sled dogs and an excess of wildlife. It's going to be one of those Alaskan adventures, and we're bringing you along for the whole trip. We found this little gem of a campground just outside Talkeetna, but this is an honor system, so we need to go pay for our time here. It's $40 a night, so $120. We'll put our money in here. Okay, we have proof. We paid. In the last video, we left off at Valdez, about six hours away from where we are here in Talkeetna. We drove through Glen Allen and took two nights to get here. This is the last stop before Denali. From the parking lot at the end of Main Street is one of the best lookout points for Denali on a clear day. Unfortunately, it did not reveal itself to us. Talkeetna was established in 1916 as a railroad supply town during the building of the Alaska Railroad. It still retains a wild west feel with preserved historic buildings and a tiny town charm. There is a local bakery, and the treats inside look too good to pass up, so we got a raspberry cinnamon roll. You ready? Yep. Is it good? Would it be better warm? Everything's better warm, but this thing... I need to get to this icing. Do you want a photo with it? We took a little walk out the back of town along the railroad tracks. It was a great leg stretcher, but don't worry, we have the whole video to find that mountain. It surprised us how many places there were to camp around Talkeetna. None of these places were more than seven minutes from town. There are multiple parking lots where you just pay to set up, and there's also a campground, but it was right next to the train tracks, so that's something to keep in mind. We found this little slice of paradise. It was tucked back in the woods, quiet, peaceful, and cozy. It's literally four spots, four little tiny spots, but as you can tell, it's quaint, it's private, and we're probably seven or eight minutes from town, so it's no big deal. There is electric. It's actually 30 amp. There's electric at every site. 30 amp seems to be a theme through most of Canada and Alaska, and there's water, but actually our water spigot is over here at this next camp spot, and in the rules it just asks you to fill your tank and work from there. I want you to look up with me. We have some blue skies, and that is huge. We have a short travel day today. We are headed to Denali National Park, and we are hoping that we get to see Denali. There is a viewpoint from town where we've been the last three nights, and we haven't got to see it. It's been cloudy, or it's been sunny here, but then cloudy there, but the weather has not cooperated. So it is partly cloudy, but there is a lot of blue in that sky. That's the million dollar question. Will we get to see the peak or not? We're not just going to Denali to see the peak, of course. We're going to go all through the park. Some friends of ours went last week. They said they saw five grizzlies on their bus ride, so we have really high hopes for wildlife, see the peak, and we have something really special we're celebrating while we're there. So we're hoping that puts the odds a little bit more in our favor. Let's go track some dirt in the bus and head out. Don't expect to have clean shoes if you come to Alaska for the summer. I'm just saying there's dirt, and dirt roads, and dust, and dusty roads, and more dirt, and more dirt, and more dirt everywhere you go. And then when it rains and you think it's going to help, no, it just makes the dirt stick to the bottom of your shoes, or all the little grass and tree stuff. So I'm not complaining, I'm just telling you it's real. Sarah completely cleaned the front of the bus last night, and just from this morning, look how gross it is. That's literally from like three trips. We are leaving Talkeetna, Alaska, and we're heading to Denali. So Denali is a pretty cool place. It's somewhere we've always wanted to go, but I feel like this may be a pretty special trip to Denali. What do you think? I think I'll have to agree with that one. Why? Because it's my birthday. You know, it's funny, we were talking about this last night. You've got to spend your birthday in some of the coolest places ever. I guess it's just because it's in the summer. Yeah, we're always traveling during the summer, so I get lucky. Last year we made a video about your birthday in particular, and we were in the Tetons. Amazing. Best birthday ever. It was gorgeous. What was one of your favorite things about your birthday last year? Swimming in the lake there. We went to the big lake, and sat on the beach, and just enjoyed the sun, and then got in the cold water. But it was totally worth it, and it was just so much fun. Yeah, that was awesome. What are you excited about Denali? I'm excited for the wildlife, and I'm praying we get to see the peak of Denali. I really want to see it. Like, that's why everyone goes is to see it. Well, I don't know if you know this or not, but I think that only 30 percent of the people go get to see the top, and I heard only like five percent of the people get to see the entire mountain at one time. Hopefully we're part of that five percent this year. We will be. You know what? We're going to stick around till we get to see it. Dad's determined we are not leaving Denali until we see this peak. I mean, how cool is that? We could actually really do that. We have nowhere to be for basically two weeks. So, the joys of full timing, and we have full hookups at the RV park we're staying at, so I could be there as long as we need to be. We're all pretty excited about running some water, a lot of water, one time for a shower, and yep. There is so much to look forward to in Denali. We got about a two and a half hour drive, and I cannot wait. I hate how that step is different every time. I almost about killed myself. We stopped by Denali on the way to the RV park. RV park's about seven miles past the entrance, and we thought we could stop in here before it closes today, get a lay of the land, know what we're going to do, where we're going to go, because tomorrow's Sarah's birthday, and at least she wants to come hiking. So, we're One of the things that separates Denali from other national parks is that it has and uses its own dog sled teams throughout the park, and we get to go see them in action in just a bit. Video was great. Now, we're heading to the campground to get all settled. Now, it's time to make this spot be a little bit more like home. We are just having some leftover taco stuff, but tomorrow for dinner, for my birthday, we are having hibachi. So, we are right now cooking rice in the instapot, because for fried rice, day-old rice is just so much better. So, that's what that's going on. Sugar's also prepping some veggies for my meal, so it's all done, because I think we're going hiking in Denali. In Denali. So, when we come back, it'll all be ready to eat, because I know we'll be hungry. Hey, guys. We're hosting our very first rally, and we want you to be there. It doesn't matter if you have a motorhome, RV, tent, or nothing at all. We have a place for you. It's going to be November 5th through the 9th, 2025, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We're going to ring in fall in all of its beauty in the Great Smoky Mountains. We would love to have you there. We're going to have four nights of camping, three nights of catered dinners and live music, two morning coffee chats, and one free day, where we will organize an optional group hike, as well as attend Dolly Parton's Dixieland Stampede, which is a dinner entertainment show. The link's in the description. Don't wait. We'd love to get to know you in person, and there's going to be some other really amazing travelers there. I know you're going to make some new friends. Hope to see you in Pigeon Forge in November. Let's get back to the video. I have a feeling we're going to see that mountain. So we set out this afternoon to go see the sled dogs Denali is known for, but first we stopped by a little part of town to check it out. Little did we know they brought some of the sled dog pups to the lodge, and we got to get really close up with them sooner than we thought. Come on, Norman and him would be better. I've been held all day. We made a quick pit stop at Denali Square. This is shopping and dining inside of the Holland America Denali Lodge compound. They actually have their own lodge. They have their own housing for people that come to do these excursions with them before or after their cruises. So we're going to go check it out because all of this is open to the public too. There are a couple knickknack shops, a restaurant and bar, and then there's a saloon with some sort of dinner show. Not a lot of options. I don't think it's something that you would just come here for unless you happen to be in the area, but it's very well done, and if you decide to do any of their packages, you know, this looks like this would definitely be an add-on. The view is amazing though here. We're on our way to see the sled dogs at Denali. Three times a day you can go there. You pet the dogs, they do a formal presentation, and then I think you get to pet them a little bit more before you leave. So it's really cool because in the winter those dogs are working their butts off moving things around all over the park, and then in the summertime they get to just be pet and have a little more leisurely life. At least that's our understanding. This is beautiful. A nice little walk to get to the dog area. It just adds to the ambiance. Let's go check out the dogs before they start with the demonstration. These are the little puppies. While we were at that Denali square, they did have two of the tiniest puppies over there, and Sarah got to snuggle with them. Look at these guys, they're wiped out. Every single one of them's asleep. Yeah, he's chasing something in his dream. They are all having an afternoon nap. This was a 25-minute talk and I'm going to summarize it for you. The ranger told us about how Denali National Park came to be and how the sled dogs had such a big impact on the park. Okay, cool. I'm going to count down from three and then we're all going to howl together. Ready? Three, two, one. During the summer, this is how they train. Look how the rangers bring them right around for us. All right, let's give a round of applause to our canine rangers. The cool thing about these dogs is that whenever something needs to be moved or explored in the winter, especially in the backcountry, the dogs are the first choice and actually more reliable than modern machinery. At the end, they brought out the puppies and let them race back to the pen for dinner. It was super cute. That was a great presentation on Denali and the sled dogs. If you come, you have to do it. It's free too, so there's nothing stopping you. We left Denali for the day and headed up the road back past our campground to a local brewery. The atmosphere was very cool and natural, to say the least. They had beautiful trees, antlers, and a fireplace inside. Outside, it was an open space with plenty of places to sit. Cornhole, fire pits, and beautiful flowers filled the courtyard. The food and drinks were very good. They even had a sampler of craft sodas, which the kids ordered. Sarah especially loves this, and it was presented in a very fun way. Although the coolest thing about this brewery was this bus. But why, you may ask? Well, this bus is a replica of the famed Magic Bus from the book Into the Wild by John Krakauer in the 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, where it featured as the makeshift shelter of adventurer Christopher McCandless as he traveled through the Alaska wilderness and lived off the land. After a few months in the abandoned bus, a few very unlucky things happened and he passed away. We kept his memory alive by taking his signature photo right outside the bus. All right, sissy, pull that leg up. Sissy, happy birthday, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Sarah. Happy birthday to you. It's my birthday. We're gonna party like it's my birthday. Day two in Denali, but it is Sarah's 16th birthday, so it's very special. And we're gonna have some homemade sourdough bread, her favorite sausage, open some presents, and just enjoy her today. I don't think we're gonna be seeing the mountain today. Oh, that's beautiful. Fresh sourdough bread. With Nutella. With Nutella. I've never had it like this. But you've been dreaming about it. Look how fire that is. Awesome belt buckle and there's roses going around the whole thing. I might wear it today if I don't do anything too drastic. Well, as luck would have it, it's been a rainy day in Denali today and that's fine. It's nice to have a down day, but it is Sarah's birthday and we were hoping to play hooky for a little bit, go for a hike, but we've made the best of it. She had a great movie day. She and Jason watched one of their favorite movies and now we're in the car and we're just going to go into town. We've got our raincoats, we'll dodge the rain showers, and we're just going to piddle and enjoy this part of Denali. But we will get that hike in before the weekend's over, so don't worry, we're going to take you along for that too. One of our birthday traditions is to give gifts throughout the entire day and that means bringing them with us as we explore town. Since today is a chill day, let's take a little tour of our campground. This is the Denali RV park and motel. To start, the entrance is nice and big, which is ideal for big rigs. This campground is only about 10 minutes from the entrance to the national park. It's not a big campground, but it works. They have a dump and fill station for passing rigs, which is nice. They also have showers, but you have to pay for them even as a campground guest, which is something that was a little more common on this trip. There's also a laundromat, dog park, playground, and a motel side. Our spot fit our 45-foot motor home nicely. Definitely not extra roomy, but there was plenty of room for us to do what we wanted to do. We had full hookups, which was much appreciated. Even though most of these campgrounds are 30 amp, it hasn't messed with us at all and the reason is because before this trip we had big beard batteries down in Texas put a full solar installation in our rig. We have been able to do everything we want to do without hesitation. We haven't even flinched. So if you're ever considering solar on your rig and have questions about it, just reach out to us. Put it in the comments, send us a message. We're happy to chat about it, but it has been absolutely flawless. All right, little surprise. They actually have this little cabin up at the front of the campground and inside of it is a couple of tables, some chairs, there's a heater right there, but the ground is gravel. So this is actually where we're going to come have hibachi dinner for Sarah's birthday. Instead of sitting outside or all filing into our bus, we're going to sit in here and I have been tasked with coming down here to set up. I've got all the balloons. I actually have even more balloons in there and I have some banners and stuff. So I'm cleaning up this place. Sarah doesn't know it's going to be a surprise, but it's going to be a great evening right here outside of Denali Park and a birthday that she will not forget. And I want you guys to listen real quick. That's rain and some of you may be like, oh dang it, it's raining. But in the Shimpo house, rain is a blessing. All right, a little room tour. Got where we're going to make hibachi. Got the heater rolling. Happy birthday banner right there. Balloons up in the air. Another happy birthday banner. Both tables wiped off and I'm not really sure what else there is to do. I think we're actually almost done and almost ready for some hibachi. Oh hello. It's the birthday girl. Come right this way. How many in your party? Okay, I got menus. Okay, for you, your birthday? Oh, you get special treatment. Come with me. You wait. Where would you like to sit pretty girl? Right here. Okay, okay. Okay, you have to share this menu with your party. I didn't make enough. Who's pretty girl's mom? You? You come. You wait. We'll come back. You have to share menu. I only have one. Awesome. You come over here and sit. This is your seat right here. You sit, sit. How many? Two. Two? Come this way. I have one more seat. Best seat in house for you. This is your way over here. It's by the post office. You sit there ma'am. This is dirty seat. You don't want to sit here. Can I have a menu for you for tonight? And for you sir? Hibachi experience. Okay. So it's your birthday. How old are you? 16. 16. How many were those days? Yeah. They were special. Would you like something to drink for your supper ma'am? Yes. What would you like? Wainsville soda juice. Oh, Wainsville soda juice. Nice choice. Did you see that on the menu? I did. Thank you. Okay. Once I finish this, I'll have that. Okay. You want to wait or you want to nap? I'll wait. Okay. How about for you sir? Can you read the menu? Are you too old? There's not much to pick from. You get steak or both. Your printer has some issues. Yes. It's what I have mister. We don't complain at this restaurant. How about for you young videographer guy? You want something? I brought my own. You brought my own? What are you Spanglish? Okay. Where is your own? Right there. Here you go. You come sit. Sit. This is the king of the table right here. You sit here. You have to share your menu with your mother and your sister. I can do that. It's her birthday. Okay. So this evening while you're looking, let me tell you about some specials we have. Steak and chicken and shrimps and salmon. I'm going to start preparing your meal. You guys visit amongst one another. These are really nice people. They're from Florida and they're really nice. I think you'll enjoy them. I know it's your birthday but we got to share table food. We have to make as much as we can and we brought you some balloons. Oh. Tom made you balloons. I know you didn't want to invite them but aren't you glad you did? Yes I am. Thanks dad. Who knew you would be? Okay. I start the grill if it blows up in here. I'm sorry. Okay. Bro do you turn this thing on or no? Oh yeah we got to plug it in. These freaking young guys. They can't finish the job. Hand it A-Roll. Okay I'll put it on the grill. They're not spinning anymore. This is gonna get hot. I'm gonna put my hand in there. Like our cure. Just like that. It's great. My arm wear out. Thank you girl. They taught me. Look at that. That is literally a plate of heaven. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Sissy. Happy birthday to you. Good morning. This morning I have sat out all our stuff for our journey into Denali National Park today. We're gonna go in. The sun's shining a little bit. Maybe we'll get a peek at the mountain. We're gonna go on a hike around some beautiful lakes which we think is about roughly six miles but we'll get more details when we get there. Lunch. Water packs. Snacks. Water tubes. And a sissy. And a sissy. And a dad. And whatever that is. Norman's not coming with us today because we're back in the United States and the United States National Parks do not allow pets to join us. Canada does though so keep that in mind. Okay dad what's the plan for today? We are heading to the bus depot to get our tickets for Sunday morning. You can get your tickets two or three days ahead for the bus ride into Denali and then we're gonna head up and do the triple lakes hike. We just got done getting our tickets for Sunday. It cost about $33 per person so that's roughly $135 for us to go on this bus. We got them for Sunday so fingers crossed it's supposed to be gorgeous. So fingers crossed it stays that way and we're about to go on our hike for today. Got a sandwich so that way we can go on the hike. Where's mom's shoes at? Should go get your backpack we're gonna go on a hike. Yay! You guys check out my new knife I bought in Talkeena. It's got this beautiful case. Check this out. Is that not so sweet? Alaskan made and it's something for me to remember my trip to Alaska. The first lake was one and a half miles. That was my part and it's back there. We're still kind of at the tail end of it. Shouldn't we do this in front of the lake? We have two more lakes we'll show you those. We'll tell you about them while we're at them. We hiked almost a half a mile more and found lake number two. It's totally a swan over there. I'm fine stopping honestly. We've almost hit the three mile mark so it was one more mile from lake two to lake three and we can see it down yonder and we are uh I think we're gonna uh what's the right word I'm looking for? I think we're gonna pass on all the downhill. Yeah. Which means pass on all the uphill. And we have a lot of up and down left to go to get back to the car. So we're gonna get a little closer take the view in a little more. So let's go check off the last lake here and we can head on back. That is a huge moose print. Put your hand next to it show. Yeah. As big as your hand. So they just scale up and down these ridges. It's incredible. We've never seen him climb up and down like that. I'd love to see where he is. This is really cool. We found an animal trail. So if you look up the hill here there's a pretty worn path and it's not as steep here as in some other places. So the animals are coming down here crossing over and then look down through here it's all worn out as well for them to get down to the water. So maybe the moose came this way but took a right turn. I don't know. And it was just so fitting that we saw a moose on the way home. Three of them actually. Let's check out the grocery store and the prices on the way home. I have never experienced this before. The bread is frozen. Like this one the whole bottom is just solid. The top is soft bottom solid. We might not be getting which one we really wanted. This one's not frozen. This one is. But a great idea for you guys is these prices are about seven to nine dollars for a loaf of bread which is definitely expensive but I mean we're in Alaska we knew this was what it would be. You're getting a nine dollar loaf of bread. Ten dollar bag of chips. Nine dollar loaf of bread. Almost 20 bucks for two items. This grocery store was nicely stocked. Now you can look at these prices whichever way you want but here they are. There's also an ace built into the store so you can fix whatever you want while here. So we've been having problems with our generator and we've been trying to get it fixed and we think we've located the problem which is a fan that is no longer turning on to cool the generator down. So we just replaced the fan after my dad ran to town. Let's see if our generator works now. Let's start up. I'm gonna run out here and check on the fan. It's cool up so the generator is taking a little bit longer to heat up because the fan does not turn on until the generator reaches a certain heat level but it's starting to climb up there now so we're gonna get back in the bay and see if the fan turns on. It just started running. Yes. Yes. It's on. Let's go. So we just need to, oh probably blinding you guys, so we just need to watch the temperature on the generator and see if it continues to go up or if it lowers itself back down. People ask us all the time how we can afford this lifestyle. Well Jason and I still work full-time. What we'd like you to know is that Jason's a real estate broker and I'm a mortgage broker and that if we could ever help you buy or sell a piece of property or finance or refinance it we would love to. We're licensed in most states and where we're not we've got some great people that we can introduce you to. Also if you happen to be a realtor or a loan officer and you're wondering how maybe you could be more mobile like us, we would be happy to share those secrets with you as well. So there's a link in the description. Get some time on our calendar and we'd love to get to know you in this way too. It's early, that's for sure, but we're ready and hoping to see tons of animals and hopefully the top of Denali because at the end of the day that's what we're really here for. All right we've got our park pass and our tickets for the bus. You actually have to buy them in advance and Jason did that Friday and it's Sunday morning and we're on the 6 a.m. bus so it's 5 30 a.m. We're gonna get in line so hopefully we'll be towards the front and can pick the seat that we want. Today we're taking one of the tour buses here at Denali and the reason is right now you could only go 15 miles into the park with your car. The buses go in 43 miles so you have to pay to go on one of these tour buses in order to see everything. There are two options. There's one that's more of a history full narration tour. It was over a hundred dollars per person and we we just passed on that. We chose the East Fork Transit bus. If you're 16 or over and Sarah turned 16 just a couple days ago so we've got four $33 tickets but what we're told and hopefully it's true is that the bus drivers actually narrate on this too. So we think it's going to be a pretty good you know middle of the road a way for us to see everything. The last thing I want to tell you is that there are lots of stops along the way so you can get off if you want on and off on and off. Our strategy is to go all the way to the end and then if we want to get off get off on the way back because it is a big loop and we also have a two-mile hike scoped out about halfway back so we'll get about three-fourths of the way into our day and do that. If we just rode the bus we're told it's four to five hours so it's going to be a long day but we're ready and really excited and surprisingly awake. Sitting in the ranger station the Alaska range my destination on a tour of arctic wonders the wolves cry and the river thunders and every stop a mystery reminds me that I want to be Denali bound Denali bound home of the grizzly bear home of the slushy hair home of the mossy tundra soft beneath my feet. This is where cars have to stop and only buses may pass. This has been great so far highly highly recommended no wildlife yet unless you count the ptarmigans however we are in the 30 club because we did get to see some part of Denali but so far it's been a good morning. Look at this legendary lock. So far we've seen at least three bears and two caribou. This is the end of the bus ride so we're 43 miles in and it's beautiful they have the the riverbed is flowing underneath us and it's just an incredible 360 degree view. Over this little bridge is where the construction zone starts and they're building a self-sustaining bridge in order to open up about 45 more miles of road so that's supposed to be done in the next year or two it would be really cool to come back and they did say on the bus that it's really it's going to be really interesting to see how those animals in that look back section act when the buses and people come back through because did they say it's been six years it's been six years since anybody's been back there to speak of so yeah we learned a lot of cool things so it's not just something that you drive through and hike through there's a lot of work going on in the background we have just made the call that we are going to stay here and hike up the river a little bit and see what we can see we asked the tour guide and he said we stand a better chance of seeing some good wildlife here so there's a stair set that goes right down there and then we can either walk around you can walk through the brush there's no designated trails so we can really go wherever we want just as long as we don't go up the road that they're doing construction on which is pretty cool in my opinion do you see anything moving in the brush over there just look for a minute oh my gosh oh yes so that was way cool that was a mama grizzly bear and her two cubs and apparently they're about two years old so they weren't born this spring they were born last spring and they've been hanging out in this area but one of the babies got spooked when one of the bus drivers was hollering at the folks over here on the other side of the bridge because they were in the direct line of those bears and didn't even know it because you know there's the bridge and the mountain kind of bows around here so the little baby got spooked went back over the ridge and mama and the other baby started back up the mountain to catch up but you kind of she doesn't have the other one the two of them are just kind of going to do their thing and maybe maybe the other one will just show up and how these bears just scale the side of the mountain is incredible so hopefully you guys loved that as much as we did it's uh but now we're not really sure what to do we're just going to stay here for a minute well maybe maybe a lot of minutes and we're just going to watch them and see what direction they're going because we actually want to walk along the riverbed but we're not going to get in their way all righty so this side over here is where the bears went to the mama with her cubs and they have closed that so now we're going to take this side and there's a trail wait where the heck did they go they're right here there's a trail that goes down and we're still lots of opportunity for bears though are your feet drier i feel better because i knew it wasn't heat where we're hiking right now is completely off trail there are literally one set of stairs which are closed because of the bears that we just saw so we came down on the other side of the bridge we had to beat our way through the brush get down to the riverbed and we thought we could navigate it uh as you can tell we could not navigate it without getting our feet wet so we had two choices we could either turn around and go back or we could suck it up and get our shoes wet and move on down the river so we're uh we're living up to our t-shirts we're making the memories now that's what we're doing let me tell you wet feet and all those mountains look similar to those ones back there painted paint like the marmalade it feels like we're in a painting right now it really does it's that beautiful and it's worth it we're not going any further our feet are completely wet we don't mind to walk through the streams of a couple inches but behind us the water is moving at a pretty good clip and it's gotten noticeably deeper um jason is over there checking it out and even he is waving the white flag so um we're just going to enjoy this moment alaskan beauty taste yeah that's what we're gonna do sissy look at that say perfect love can't let you down on this one all right you got that walk in brother here we go ready steady oh oh could she ever i bet you could get it well done willis the kids nickname me pps sometimes which stands for party pooper shin paul but they can't call me that today i'm glad i went all in glad we got our feet wet and i'm really glad that we got to explore this part of denali in this way but this adventure is far from over on the bus ride home we finally saw it denali standing at 20 310 feet tall it was a sight we'll never forget we pulled over on the side of the road and just took it all in and if that wasn't pinnacle enough almost immediately after we started back on the road this happened this is what happens when you see grizzly bears on the tour bus we had to stop the bus so they can walk by everybody's getting their shot so we have our money back and so with a day we dreamed about coming to a close we enjoyed our last sights of denali as we relaxed on the bus ride home there was only one way to end such an amazing day pizza from this local pizza place here in town denali was even better than we dreamed it would be it did not disappoint we hope you enjoyed coming along in this adventure with us go grab someone you love make a memory now and we'll see you on the next adventure