Fairbanks, Alaska - Denali National Park, Alaska

Day 19 – Wednesday, August 17 2005
Fairbanks, Alaska – Denali National Park, Alaska
Miles Driven: 136

We left the motel in Fairbanks and negotiated our way toward the George Parks Highway. There was construction for the first 30 miles and the smoke from the fire was pretty bad, so the sightseeing was not very good. Just after the end of the construction zone we met a gravel truck that threw up a rock and cracked the windshield of our van. (Not a huge crack, but big enough.) We were really bummed out since we had traveled over 500 miles on gravel roads on the Campbell and Taylor Highways without a single rock, and then get hit on a paved highway outside of Fairbanks. Oh well, what can you do? We drove on toward Denali National Park and spent the night at an RV park just off the highway, nothing special but a place to sleep.