📍 Full Itinerary
Route Overview
20 days · 10 stops · 3 phases — Juneau to Vancouver via glaciers, grizzlies, gold rush towns, and the Arctic wilderness.
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Aug 14–22
Phase 1: With the Group
Join Tal/Nili families' RV trip for a week
✈️ Arrival
- Fly in Aug 14 — family of 7 arrives ahead of the group
- Aug 14–15: explore Juneau on your own (Mendenhall Glacier, Red Dog Saloon, waterfront)
- Aug 15 evening: group returns from Glacier Bay — meet at Auk Village Campground
⚠️ Critical
- Ferry check-in 5:00 AM tomorrow! Pack tonight
- Auk Village Campground Sites 001/008/006
- Res: 0860019815 & 0846855554
Ferry Juneau→Skagway — Booking #2226291/CCCE, depart 7:00 AM, arrive 1:45 PM · $4,212 PAID ✅ BOOKED
⭐ Highlights
- Historic gold rush boardwalk town, 1898
- Grizzly Falls Ziplining: Aug 17, 10:30 AM ✅ BOOKED
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
🏕️ Camp
- Pullen Creek RV Park — Spaces 16/17/18/4
- Bathroom code: 12345 · Has dumping
- Before departure: stock, laundry, fuel, dump, water
Drive south through Yukon on Alaska Hwy, then BC Cassiar Highway (Hwy 37) — 3 days of epic wilderness driving
🌙 Campgrounds
- Night 1 (Aug 17): Squanga Lake — no reservation, arrive early
- Night 2 (Aug 18): Boya Lake — bcparks.ca ⚠️ Opens May 18
- Night 3 (Aug 19): Meziadin Lake — bcparks.ca ⚠️ Opens May 19
⭐ En Route
- Carcross village — totem poles
- Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre
- Rancheria Falls (easy hike)
- Kinaskan Lake swimming
- Continental divide crossing
~2.5 hrs to Hyder/Stewart via Hwy 37A — Salmon Glacier country
🐻 Bear Watching
- Bear Boardwalk permits: Order #0861988795 ✅ BOOKED
- 13 tickets, $273 PAID · Aug 20–21
- Best viewing: 6 AM and 10 PM
- Salmon Glacier shuttle (1:00 PM, weather-dependent)
⚠️ Aug 22: Phase Ends
- Group returns RVs in Terrace morning
- Skeena RV Park last night together
- Friends fly home. You head north independently!
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Aug 22–31
Phase 2: Reverse the Highlights
Hit what we missed — going north from Whitehorse
🚗 Getting There
- Fly Terrace (YXT) → Vancouver (YVR) → Whitehorse (YXY)
- Collect RV at Fraserway Whitehorse (9039 Quartz Rd, 867-668-3438) on arrival Aug 22
- Fraserway RV, Whitehorse — this is the confirmed plan
⭐ Activities
- Miles Canyon trail walk
- Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre (ice age!)
- Takhini Hot Springs — perfect with kids
- SS Klondike paddle steamer
2.5–3 hrs west on Alaska Hwy to Haines Junction / Kluane
✈️ Glacier Flight
- Rocking Star Adventures — rockingstar.ca ⚠️ BOOK NOW
- +1-867-334-8675 · [email protected]
- 1-hour flight over Kaskawulsh & Kluane glaciers
- Group called this the #1 trip highlight!
⭐ More
- Kluane Lake — massive turquoise alpine lake
- Sheep Mountain — telescopes for Dall sheep
- Soldiers Summit hike (3.4 km, Moderate)
- Village Bakery in Haines Junction
5.5 hrs north to Dawson City — stop at Five Finger Rapids en route
⭐ Must-Do
- Diamond Tooth Gerties — cancan shows & gambling
- Midnight Dome viewpoint — sunset views
- Free Yukon River ferry crossing
- Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre
🏕️ Stay
- Gold Rush Campground (showers/dump/laundry)
- OR Downtown Hotel / Bombay Peggy's boutique
- Provision: groceries before Dempster
2 hrs south on Dempster Highway (gravel, good quality) to Tombstone
🏔️ The Wildest Part
- Tombstone's jagged granite peaks — Lord of the Rings
- Angelcomb Peak hike (5.8 km, Hard) — jaw-dropping
- Goldensides Mountain (6 km, Moderate)
- Chapman Lake — 1 hr each way, stunning
🏕️ Camp
- Tombstone Mountain Campground ⚠️ Book when opens
- 50% reservable — try Parks Canada reservation system
- No hookups, hand water pump
Aug 30: Drive Tombstone → Whitehorse (6–7 hrs), stop for lake swimming. Aug 31: Fly Whitehorse → Vancouver
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Aug 31 – Sep 2
Phase 3: Vancouver Finish
City decompression + fly home
🌆 City Highlights
- Stanley Park seawall + totem poles
- Capilano Suspension Bridge (kids love it!)
- Granville Island public market
- Grouse Mountain gondola + bear refuge
✈️ Fly Home
- Sep 2: YVR → NYC (JFK/EWR, ~5 hrs direct)
- OR YVR → Miami (MIA, ~6 hrs direct)
- Air Canada, WestJet, United all have options
- Hotels: Fairmont, Rosewood, Pan Pacific, or Westin Bayshore (family pool)