• 4 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Denali National Park: Explore Denali’s vast wilderness on a guided journey with a Local Specialist. Visit the historic Murie Cabin, where naturalist Adolf Murie once lived and studied the park’s wildlife. Travelling along this storied route offers a chance to spot animals in their natural habitat and follow a tradition that began with park tours in 1923.
• Denali National Park: Travel aboard a Dome Railcar on the Alaska Railroad to the Golden Heart City of Fairbanks. Enjoy a spectacular journey over swift-rushing streams towards Fairbanks.
• Fairbanks: Pan for gold with Fairbanks’ own Gold Daughters and learn the process of panning for gold as well as ice age fossils and cool minerals. 
• Valdez: Discover the rich history and heritage as you visit the Valdez Museum.
• Valdez: Enjoy a cruise across Prince William Sound where you will have the chance to spot sea lions, otters and seals.

Lift off for a scenic flight over the Alaska Range, circling rock spires and snowfields near the massif. Your pilot narrates geology and climbing lore while windows frame seracs, cornices, and sweeping valley glaciers.

Select departures offer a brief glacier or tundra landing, letting you step into the stillness. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; operations are weather-permitting for safety and visibility.

• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• Standard regional accommodation
• Deluxe coach, and cruise travel

Cruise Prince William Sound past rocky islets and ice-strewn bays to the blue face of the Columbia Glacier. Watch for calving ice cliffs that thunder into the sea while keeping an eye out for sea otters, harbor seals, and Steller sea lions.

Glide through luminous bergs under towering peaks as naturalists share glaciology and marine ecology. A relaxed onboard lunch pairs coastal scenery with the hush of open water and circling kittiwakes.

Join a Local Specialist at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, a non-profit refuge along Turnagain Arm. Drive among spacious habitats to observe brown and black bears, moose, caribou, and wood bison while learning about rescue and rehabilitation.

Interpretive stops illuminate behavior, habitat needs, and reintroduction efforts such as the state’s wood bison program. Surrounded by Chugach peaks, this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience deepens understanding of coexistence on Alaska’s wild edge.

Trafalgar

Join a guided panoramic tour of Alaska’s largest city to get your bearings among the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet. Trace the story of modern Anchorage as you pass downtown landmarks and greenbelts, with stops often showcasing features such as the Ship Creek waterfront, Earthquake Park, and the busy Lake Hood seaplane base.

Gain a sense of scale and frontier resilience as you learn how the 1964 earthquake reshaped the city and how aviation keeps remote communities connected. Clean ocean light, spruce-scented air, and mountain profiles set the scene for your adventure.

Explore the Alaska Native Heritage Center, a living cultural hub where dance, carving, and storytelling illuminate 10,000 years of tradition. Wander past traditional Native dwellings, meet culture bearers, and engage with exhibits that reveal the artistry and ingenuity of Alaska’s 11 major cultural groups.

Venture onto the lakeside boardwalk for the Indigenous Plants Tour circling Lake Tiulana. Learn how berries, bark, and tundra plants nourish and heal, and how deep ecological knowledge guides sustainable lifeways. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience supports culture, education, and community.

Discover Denali’s living laboratory in a Welcome to the Subarctic presentation with a Local Specialist. Unpack how seasons sculpt life above the 63rd parallel, from hibernation strategies and migration routes to the quiet power of lichens and dwarf willow.

Hear how permafrost and taiga shape everything from plant height to wildlife behavior. This focused session enriches your time in the park with field-ready insight into identifying tracks, reading the landscape, and spotting animals ethically and responsibly.

Join a guided wilderness tour through Denali National Park and Preserve, traveling across boreal forest into open tundra where braided rivers and glacier-carved valleys unfold. Watch for caribou, Dall sheep, moose, and bears while your naturalist interprets the park’s geology and ecology.

Connect with conservation history at the Murie Cabin, linked to renowned biologist Adolf Murie. Stories of early researchers and evolving wildlife science bring context to the vast views and the intact ecosystem anchored by North America’s highest peak.

Travel aboard a glass-domed railcar on the storied Alaska Railroad, gliding past river valleys, spruce forest, and distant ridgelines. Settle into your elevated seat or step onto the open-air viewing platform for unfiltered scenes of the Interior’s wild sweep.

Rail narration adds local color—homesteads, mining claims, and salmon streams—while broad windows frame the Nenana and Tanana watersheds. It’s a timeless way to sense distance and scale across Alaska’s heartland.

Explore Fairbanks on a guided city tour that introduces the “Golden Heart City.” See how river trade, aviation, and the Gold Rush shaped this northern community, from historic streets to modern cultural spaces along the Chena River.

Hear stories of stampeders, sled dog champions, and scientists who chase the aurora. The tour frames Fairbanks as a gateway to the Arctic, where resilience and ingenuity fuel life through the long winter and luminous summer.

Pan for gold alongside Fairbanks’ own Gold Daughters, working with real Alaskan paydirt at sluice boxes guided by expert tips and tall tales. Feel the weight of your finds as you swirl the pan and learn to read the sand and gravel.

This hands-on session connects you to the frenzy of the early 1900s Gold Rush, revealing the minerals, fossils, and perseverance that built fortunes—and communities—along Interior riverbanks.

Visit the home of musher Dave Monson for an intimate look at Alaska’s state sport. Meet sled dogs, hear Iditarod trail stories, and learn how kennels train teams for endurance, leadership, and winter survival.

Share a convivial dinner as your host brings the culture of mushing to life—its history, husbandry, and the powerful bond between musher and dog that drives teams across the Interior’s frozen miles.

Visit the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park Visitor Center to orient yourself within America’s largest national park—13 million roadless acres of volcanoes, icefields, and wildlife corridors. Engage with exhibits that unpack geology, glaciation, and frontier settlement.

Step onto overlooks facing the Wrangell and Chugach ranges and pause for photos and reflection. This UNESCO World Heritage landscape is a sanctuary of superlatives where scale, silence, and sky command the horizon.

Discover the Valdez Museum, where exhibits trace the town’s journey from Gold Rush port to modern harbor. Explore artifacts and images that recall the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and the community’s relocation to safer ground.

Context on maritime trade, oil transport, and Native history rounds out a portrait of resilience on the Sound. The museum links rugged landscapes to the lives shaped by them along this glacier-lined coast.

Take a guided tour at the Musk Ox Farm to meet these Ice Age survivors up close. Learn about gentle, sustainable husbandry and how their rare underwool, qiviut, is gathered and spun into exceptionally warm garments.

Hear conservation stories that link rural livelihoods with species stewardship. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience supports research, education, and the revival of traditional fiber arts rooted in the far north.

Roam the subarctic backcountry on a guided ATV outing that splashes through creek beds and skirts boreal forest. Feel the terrain change beneath your wheels as wide skies and distant ridges open around you.

Guides share trail etiquette and local natural history while you stop for photos at scenic clearings. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; participation is weather-dependent and requires a valid driver’s license for operators.

Clip in and soar between spruce treetops on a series of ziplines linked by sky bridges and platforms. Guides manage safety while you take in views toward the Alaska Range and listen for thrushes in the canopy.

Short hikes between lines reveal berries, mosses, and the textures of the boreal forest underfoot. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; weight and health restrictions may apply.

Join a naturalist for a paced hike that trades distance for detail. Learn to identify dwarf birch, labrador tea, and the lichens that sustain caribou while watching for tracks pressed into damp muskeg.

Interpretive stops emphasize Leave No Trace principles and the subtleties of subarctic ecology. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; trail choice varies with weather and conditions.

Settle into a rustic log hall for a hearty frontier feast paired with Gold Rush–era songs and humor. Cast members bring miners, mail carriers, and homesteaders to life with toe-tapping tunes and tall tales.

The lively atmosphere captures Denali’s early days, blending supper with storytelling under the glow of lantern light. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cruise the glacial coast of Kenai Fjords in search of puffins, sea otters, humpback whales, and orcas. Navigate among tidewater glaciers as naturalists explain fjord formation, marine food webs, and seabird rookeries clinging to sea stacks.

Cold air rolling off the ice and the crack of calving punctuate vistas of blue ice and black rock. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; routes vary with sea conditions and wildlife activity.

Lift vertically above Resurrection Bay for sweeping views of serrated peaks, waterfalls, and the Harding Icefield’s tongues of ice. Your pilot arcs along crevasse fields and seracs while explaining glacial movement and coastal weather.

Some flights include a brief landing on snow or ice for photographs and quiet contemplation. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; operations are weather-dependent for safety.

Explore Alaska’s leading marine research aquarium to meet puffins, octopus, and harbor seals up close. Exhibits and touch pools reveal adaptations to frigid seas, from thick blubber to countershaded plumage.

Learn how rescue and rehabilitation efforts support wild populations and how currents in the Gulf of Alaska drive life along this coast. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.