Nenana RV Park and Campground

Start your stay with a tour of Nenana, checking out the Alaska Railroad Depot Museum, the visitor centre and gallery (and its roof of colourful summer flowers), and the Alfred Starr Cultural Center and Museum dedicated to Athabascan culture. Time your stay right and you might even catch the end of the hotly contended Ice Classic (that’s one you definitely need to look up…). For a different and more cosmopolitan experience of Alaska, make your way to Fairbanks, an hour from Nenana. There’s loads there you’ll want to add to the list: visits to the Museum of the North, Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum and Georgeson Botanical Garden come highly recommended, and you can also see a small slice of home base with the SS Nenana (a steamwheel paddleship built and launched in Nenana in the 1930s), on display in Pioneer Park theme park. If you want to spend part of your getaway getting to grips with nature, then make a beeline for Denali National Park, to hike lengthy trails and skyscraping mountains (Denali is the highest peak in North America). Also around the park, take to the rapids for some whitewater rafting or go on a flyover, all while keeping your eyes peeled for Alaska’s Big Five: bears, wolves, caribou, moose and dall sheep.