The Grande Denali has two buildings with standard and premium rooms (depending on whether you face the canyon or mountain slopes) as well as six funky little log cabins spread throughout the property. My favorite among them is the Grande Denali, which sits high on the slopes of Sugar Loaf Mountain with epic views of the canyon below and toward Denali herself (though the mountain is not visible due to a ridgeline). The Nenana Canyon area of Denali is where you can find most of your accommodation options near the entrance to Denali National Park (there are some others south of the park entrance, though I generally advise people look at Nenana Canyon first). Instead, you’ll see that I’ve chosen six great properties in Denali I recommend Googling the location of each area (in parentheses) to get a sense for which one(s) might work in your Alaska itinerary. That means there are many small communities where you might want to stay, and it wouldn’t be “fair” to only choose one. First of all, Denali National Park is huge second, it’s abutted by a state park that is half that size again. When I started working on this list of the best places to stay in Alaska, I knew that I couldn’t choose just one place in Denali. I’ve also stayed here and the rooms are more standard – but also more reasonably priced. If you can’t get a room at the Hotel Captain Cook, consider booking at her sister property, the Voyager Inn next door. There are also several restaurants on-site my favorite is Fletchers, the pub-style spot for casual food and great craft beer. By Alaskan standards, rooms are luxurious and all have a great view in at least one direction: some can see Denali and the Alaska Range others look toward the Chugach Mountains against which Anchorage is nestled others still look south toward the Kenai mountains and Turnagain Arm, which Cook and his team sailed in 1778.

I had the good fortune to stay at the Captain Cook twice during my recent travels, and didn’t want to check out either time. Choosing the best hotel in Anchorage might seem tricky – until you arrive at the Hotel Captain Cook, and then you’ll see why it was an easy choice for me. To learn more about the peoples who call these lands home, I invite you to explore Native Land.Īs Alaska’s biggest city, you’d rightly expect there are lots of options for accommodation in Anchorage. With respect, I make a formal land acknowledgment, extending my appreciation and respect to the past and present people of these lands. In this post, I promote travel a destination that is the traditional lands of many Alaska Native groups, including the Aleut, Athabascan, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, and Yuit peoples. Use it as the starting point for your hotel research hopefully each one will be available for your travel dates – or for the return trip I know you’ll want to plan once you get home. So whether you’re planning for an overnight stop in Glennallen, have decided to extend your trip and head to Seward, or are planning a far-flung adventure to the top of the world in Utqiaġvik, you’re all set with this list. In this post, you’ll find my personal list of the best places to stay in Alaska – the ones I love, have stayed in, and recommend (and ones I’ve seen endorsed again and again by others who’ve traveled to Alaska too). To that end, you might find yourself in need of a hotel in a city you didn’t originally plan on spending an overnight in – but that’s not a problem: there are great hotels across The Last Frontier. Travel times take a while, places are spread out from one another, and there’s much of the state that isn’t even reachable by car in the first place! As such, some people who want to pick one city to base themselves in for their entire Alaska itinerary quickly discover that they’ll need to stay a few nights in a few different places. When it comes to Alaska, the first thing you’ll discover is just how big this state is. If you click, book, or buy from one of these links, I may earn a commission.

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