After months in Alaska, we decided that we wanted to go where we know its going to be warm and not rain, so we are head off into the deserts of Nevada and California. This post Starts with us leaving Reno Nevada and covers our time in Tonopah Nevada, Death Valley National Park and Twentynine Palms California as our 6-month adventure continues.
Day 1: Reno to Tonopah (day 141 of the overall trip)
Reno to Virginia City
We start our transition by traveling to and through Virginia City, just to see the town more as we remember it than how it was the other day during the motorcycle Street Vibrations event. The road to Virginia City heads up high above Reno and we get to look back at the city as we climb towards the town. With all the people and motorcycles gone, it is once again the quaint old-west town we loved. Just past Virginia City is another old west mining town – Gold Hill – and we drive by its haunted, historic hotel and Nancy remarks that she had originally considered that hotel as our lodging instead of Reno.
Fort Churchill State Historical Park – Nevada
About an hour later we take a short detour to Fort Churchill State Historic Park. It was built in 1860 to protect early settlers and westbound emigrants as well as guarding the telegraph lines. It also served as a stop for the Pony Express. It was an important supply station for the Union Army during the Civil War. Abandoned 4 years after the war’s end, the entire fort was sold for $750 to a man that stripped all the buildings for the timber and other furniture. The 200-acre property went into utter decay and the state of Nevada took possession in 1932. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. We walk in the hot sun with water bottles in tow to keep us hydrated. It was a good stop for stretching our legs and learning another piece of western history.
Fort Churchill State Historical Park to Hawthorne
Our drive takes us past the beautiful Walker Lake – a nice surprise out here in the desert. At 11 miles long and 5 miles wide, it is fed by the Walker River and has no natural outlet other than evaporation. In recent years, the waters of the lake have been diverted to irrigation and the lake is in a state of ecological collapse. Efforts are being made to cease the irrigation rights and to deliver water to the lake in hopes of restoring the lake to a state where it will support fish and birds once again. We pass by a rather large area that is using irrigation to raise crops in the desert. We can’t make it out as we pass by, but it appears that potatoes are being harvested.
Hawthorne Nevada
We need a few items from the grocery story. As we pass through Hawthorne, NV, we decide to stop while we see a decent size store. Our memory of the town we are headed to for the night was that there wasn’t a lot of infrastructure there.
Hawthorne Army Depot
To our delight, it turns out Hawthorne is home to the largest ammunitions depot in the world at 226 square miles. It both produces and stores ammunitions, is only partially staffed during peacetime, yet provisions have been made to quickly expand staffing as necessary. The grounds are also used for desert military training. There are hundreds of buildings and what appear to be underground ammunition store houses for miles all around the town.
Hawthorne to Tonopah Neveda
Shortly after leaving Hawthorne, the highway again puts us deep into the sweeping Great Basin Desert. We pass through the small town on Mina but for the most part, the desert in this area of Nevada is unpopulated.
Tonopah Neveda
When we traveled in Nevada in 2012, one of our favorite stops was in Tonopah, NV – because of the recently restored Mizpah Hotel that had only re-opened that year. We want to stay there again to see how much it may or may not have changed (both the town and the hotel). As we enter into town, it is clear there’s been several new hotels, gas stations and restaurants built since we were last here. We remember it as a dumpy town with 1 great hotel that had its own restaurant – with few other choices. It is much more inviting now and we’re so happy!
Tonopah was once known for its silver and turquoise mines. Today the town is growing again due to its lithium deposits. Wyatt Earp once live here, Howard Hughes secretly got married here and in fact owned over 100 mines in the area. Legendary boxing and heavy-weight champion of the world from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his career here in Tonopah with bare knuckle boxing. The hotel’s fine dining area is named after him.
As we approach the Mizpah, we pass the Clown Hotel and joke about the Stephen King movie “It” which featured a “clown”.
Mizpah Hotel
As we step into the Mizpah Hotel and check-in, it is just as we remember it! This 52-room hotel, known as “The Jewel of the Desert”, was built in 1907. Built for $200,000, with solid granite walls, leaded glass windows and Victorian-era luxury appointments, the hotel featured solid oak furniture, hot and cold running water, steam heat, brass chandeliers, stained glass windows, and an electric elevator (one of the first in the state). At five stories, it was also the tallest building in Nevada at the time.
We are assigned a room nick named “The Lady in Red Room” on the 5th floor. She was murdered outside the room next door and is said to haunt the hallway between the two rooms. We head down to the lobby bar and order dinner. Nancy inquires about hauntings at the hotel and is guided to read through a book of hand-written testimonials by guests – the book is over 3″ thick. It seems the most common evidence of hauntings is poking and grabbing and we wonder how the night is going to go.
Day 2: Tonopah to Death Valley (day 142 of the overall trip)
After no overnight encounters with any spirits, we have breakfast at the Mizpah and walk through the hotel one more time. We both have a memory from 10 years ago of this balcony view of the James Dempsey Restaurant area with a magnificent stained glass sky light….but we don’t find it.
Central Nevada Museum
Just on the outskirts of town, we stop at the Central Nevada Museum, which turns out to be quite well done and captures our attention for over an hour. They have a lot relics in the parking lot, but it is worth going inside to see other displays. They have displays from native American days, mining days and ranching days. They managed to retain items like the old cashier window counter at the original Post Office. They have many photographs of the town from eras of the past. So many times, when towns go bust, those things are looted or destroyed.
There also is a significant amount of World War II items here. During the war, the Army Air Corp had a large training base in the area and conducted experiments on a wide variety of weapons including radio-controlled bombs. Note the photo of the early bomb that looks like a drone.
Tonopah to Goldfield
As we leave Tonopah, the road quickly returns back to isolated desert driving.
Goldfield Nevada
We drive a little further down NV-95 and stop in the small town of Goldfield. Established in 1902 as a gold camp, this town is rich in history. Once the largest city in Nevada with 20,000 residents, it hosts about 250 residents today and is considered a “living ghost town”. The town had three newspapers, five banks, a mining stock exchange, and what was most likely the longest bar in the country that required 80 bartenders to handle its clientele.
Goldfield Hotel
The Goldfield Hotel opened in 1908 and was seen as the most luxurious hotel between Chicago and San Francisco. This stone and brick building was equipped with the most unfathomable luxuries of the time, including telephones, electricity, an elevator, and a heating system. It was opulently decorated with rich mahogany, overstuffed black leather furniture, gleaming gold-leaf ceilings, and crystal chandeliers. As we walk around the hotel, we see evidence that someone is trying to renovate it and we may have another historic hotel to visit the next time we pass through this area.
A short walking tour of Goldfield
As we walk around town we see other buildings of note including the sandstone courthouse, the fire station and the 3-story. 19,656 sf schoolhouse large enough for 450 students (currently under renovation by the National Park Service). Like most boomtowns of the era, once the gold ran dry around 1910, the town went bust. Although we can’t go into these buildings, it’s possible to peak into the windows of some and we discover that they are often like time capsules with desks, phones and papers left in place for over 100 years.
Rocket Bob’s Car Art
There is a 190-stop walking tour you can follow to hear more about this amazing town. You can also dig for souvenirs in gemstone-rich grounds and/or grab a beer in an old saloon. The town is also home to the Rocket Bob’s Car Art, a collection of uniquely decorated vehicles that were once displayed in Reno.
Goldfield to Area 51 Alien Travel Center
Aside from the small town of Beatty, which we pass though on our way south, this is a really unpopulated area. We do see however a couple more brothels tucked just off the road.
Area 51 Alien Travel Center
We continue driving south on NV-95 with Area 51 to the east. We’re heading to Death Valley National park in CA which means gas prices will jump by $1 once we cross the border into CA. As we look for gas in NV before we exit the state, we stumble on a cute little place called the Area 51 Alien Travel Center. Tto our delight, they not only have a little gift shop, but they sell gas. Fun!
Alien Travel Center Brothel
As we start to leave, we walk around the other side of the Alien Center and discover it really is a full-service stop and is the place where at least some of the aliens from area 51 work.
Area 51 Alien Travel Center to The Ranch at Death Valley
Death Valley’s roads suffered this summer from record rainfalls and only one of the four entrances into the park is open. This certainly limits our options for getting to our lodging inside the park, but fortunately, it only adds about 30 minutes to our journey.
The Ranch at Death Valley
We’re staying at The Ranch at Death Valley in the Furnace Creek area. This area has been getting a major make-over since 2018 (still in progress) and we’re staying in one of the fairly new King Cottages. The grounds are beautiful and the facilities include 2 restaurants, an ice cream shoppe, a general store and a boutique. It also has a 87-dgree spring-fed pool, a golf course and tennis courts.
Last Kind Words Saloon
We head to the Last Kind Words Saloon for dinner and get to enjoy happy hour prices. Because we are between “lunch menu” and “dinner menu”, our only food option of any substance is pizza – which turns out to be really good. The place is decorated “old west style” with wanted posters, old western movie posters, lots of rich wood, antique firearms and stuffed game animals. After talking to our bartender, we learn we are still there pre-tourist season which will start to crank up in about 2 weeks. With temperatures forecasted for 109 degrees tomorrow, we understand why it isn’t quite tourist season. Tourist season will heat up as temperatures cool down in the next few weeks.
Swimming at The Ranch
We head to the pool to cool off and watch the sun set. We have views of mountains on both sides and it is beautiful to watch the sun set over the mountains to the west while it still shines on the tops of the mountains to the east. We also watch as the sliver of a crescent moon follows the sun over the mountains and soon, the skies are ablaze with stars. We can see a hint of the milky way, but there’s too much light pollution to truly see it in its full glory. We make plans to stargaze another night while here.
Day 3: Death Valley – New Areas to Explore (day 143 of the overall trip)
Having visited Death Valley 10 years ago, our plan for this stop is to mostly rest and re-charge. We mentioned that many of the entrances to Death Valley National Park are closed, so it goes to say that more than half of the interior roads and attractions are closed as well.
The Drive to Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
To our delight, one of the drives we didn’t do years ago IS open, so that will be our leisurely destination today. We drive north and then east on 190 to the Stovepipe Wells area and then to Emigrant. This is the furthest one can travel on 190 right now as 400 yards of the asphalt road was washed away just 2 weeks ago. Here we turn onto Emigrant Canyon Road and drive 26 miles to the Charcoal Kilns just past the former town of Wildrose (where the kiln builders and workers lived). Most of the road is paved except for the last VERY bumpy 1.5-mile of dirt and rocks. Along the way we run into a few wild burros.
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
At the end we are rewarded with a stop to see the 10 well-preserved, 25-foot high Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. The kilns were built in 1877 to provide fuel for 2 silver smelters in the area. Evidence shows they were only in operation for 2 years. A picture of the kilns is the main photo feature on the park brochure. As we hike in and around them, we can still smell the charcoal smoke. The road is closed past this point due to – you guessed it – flood damage.
Stovepipe Wells & The Badwater Saloon
We turn around for the return trip and stop in Stovepipe Wells for lunch. On our last trip through Death Valley, we stayed at the lodging in Stovepipe Wells and enjoyed many a meal at the Badwater Saloon on-site. And so, we stop here for lunch. We find it interesting that the menu prices are slightly lower than those at The Ranch and we both enjoy a delicious hamburger. We make friends with the bartender who ends up giving us a discount on a t-shirt purchase.
It’s Hot Outside!
When we get back into the truck it registers 122 degrees. We know that this is from the parking lot, but it only cools to 112 degrees as we head down the road. The forecast from the weather channel this morning had predicted 109 degrees.
Harmony Borax Works
We head back to The Ranch and make a quick stop at the old Harmony Borax Works just a half mile from The Ranch. The plant and associated townsite played an important role in Death Valley history. Borax was discovered here in 1881 and the plant was built so 40 men could harvest 3-tons on a daily basis. The borax was transported by a 20-mule team whose image became the symbol for the borax industry. This plant lasted only 5 years primarily because summer high temperatures meant water wasn’t cool enough to suspend the crystalized borax.
Pool Time
Once back at The Ranch, we head to the pool. The temperature is still 112 degrees here at 3:00pm and we’re surprised to be the only ones at the pool for close to an hour and a half.
Stargazing
Shortly after sunset, we get dressed and head out to do some stargazing and decide the Harmony Borax Works should be out of the lights of The Ranch area. We sit on the tailgate eating leftover pizza from yesterday and watch as the skies grow darker and darker. Death Valley is one of the largest “International Dark Sky Parks” in the US (there are currently 66 such parks in the US). A little kangaroo mouse hops by to investigate us, most likely smelling our food. He’s too fast to catch a photo, but he keeps us entertained for a while as he comes and goes. We gaze at the Milky Way above, clearly visible in the cloudless night. We know if we went even further into the park it would be even more magnificent, but we take this as “good enough” and soon head back to The Ranch for some shut-eye.
Day 4: Death Valley – Revisiting Places Seen Before (day 144 of the overall trip)
Badwater Basin
We start our day retracing some of the nearby locations we visited on our last trip. They’ve just re-opened the road to Badwater Basin, the lowest elevation point in the US at 282 feet below sea level. The salt flats here cover 200 square miles. Once a massive inland saltwater lake, it got its name when a mule refused to drink the “bad water”.
Artists Drive
On our return back, we drive the 9-mile one-way paved route known as Artists Drive. The most popular scenic drive in the park, it is narrow, winding and dipping through multi-colored, eroded hills. Only vehicles 25 feet and under are permitted on this road. There’s an area known as Artist’s Pallete where you see the blue and green colors from chloride as well as yellow, orange and reds from iron oxides. We learn that some of Star Wars IV: A New Hope was filmed in this area.
Zabriskie Point
Next we head to Zabriskie Point, an elevated vista with views of the badlands below. It is one of the most photographed areas in the park.
20-Mule Team Canyon
Then we take the rugged unpaved road through 20-Mule Team Canyon that traces some of the route those mule teams took when transporting borax from the mines. This 2.5-mile detour is described as a roller-coaster path through yellow hills.
Dante’s View
Our final destination in the park is Dante’s View. At an elevation of 5575 feet, this spot on the Black Mountains offers amazing views of the salt flats below with the Panamint Range in the distance. This is a very popular spot for catching sunsets, sunrises and for dark sky stargazing.
Back to The Ranch
Back at The Ranch, we head once again to the Last Kind Words Saloon for a different pizza (we love the leftovers for picnic lunches). Then back to the pool to cool off from today’s 109-degree temperatures. We stop to grab some ice cream but unfortunately, we missed the Ice Cream Parlor by 15 minutes. Thankfully, the General Store has pints for sale and it suits us just fine.
Day 5: Death Valley to Twentynine Palms (day 145 of the overall trip)
We’ve been eating breakfast in our cabin the past few days, eating corn beef hash cooked on our travel electric skillet. Today we decide to try the buffet breakfast at the 1849 Restaurant (all meals served here are buffet style). At $17 per person, it is a bit pricey for what you get, but it isn’t like most people have other options.
Mustang Rally
We are transitioning today to the town of Twentynine Palms, CA that is the gateway to Joshua Tree National Park. Our first order of business is to fill up the tank on the Brown Beast somewhere in NV as opposed to CA because of the $1 per gallon gap in prices. The Gas Buddy app fails us, teasing us about a low cost place just outside the park, but the price is wrong – and our best choice now is to head back 23 miles to the Area 51 Alien Travel Center. The parking lot is filled with at least 100 mustangs. As we fill our tank, they begin to leave to head to Las Vegas for some car show. Our tank is lower than we usually let it go, but soon we’re filled up and on our way.
Shoshone California
As we pass the small town of Shoshone, we stop for a few minutes and walk around. The little cafe/bar appears to be setup to have small music events.
To Calico
We want to take a route through the Mohave Desert Preserve, but a quick internet search informs us the road is closed – you guessed it – due to flood damage. We push onwards to Calico which we see on the map as a “ghost town”. Note the “Zzyzx” road – what, did they run out of names? Nancy remembers passing by this road sign some 45+ years ago when her family did a cross-country camping trip.
Calico Ghost Town
There’s no sign from the interstate but our GPS is dutifully guides us about 5 miles off the highway. As we pull in, we realize this isn’t the type of ghost town we’re used to – quiet with an unassuming collection of old buildings. Calico Ghost Town is a former ghost town that’s been developed into a family attraction. This old west silver mining town began around 1881 and was abandoned around 1893 when the silver lost its value. It was architecturally restored in the 1950’s by Walter Knotts (of Knotts Berry Farm fame). In addition to restored structures, it contains numerous restaurants and souvenir shops. It is currently decorated for the Halloween season. It captures our attention for a little over an hour, and then we’re back on the road.
Scenic Driving to Twentynine Palms, CA
The rest of the drive was typical desert terrain and we start to see those famous “Joshua Trees”. We pass through the town of Joshua Tree and 12 miles later we’re in Twentynine Palms. Both towns are showing their age and we can see efforts being made to improve both.
Twentynine Palms & Our Best Western Hotel
Here again, we choose to stay at a Best Western – the SureStay by Best Western at Twentynine Palms-Joshua Tree. We have a very large 2 room suite near the pool with a bedroom, a separate living room and a small kitchen between. It is great to have so much room for 3 nights, but unfortunately we discover the oven is broken after completely moving everything in. We inform the front desk, but it isn’t worth moving to a different room – we’ll just cook stovetop and microwave meals. Also unfortunately, the room next door is occupied by a couple with some serious anger issues and we hear loud arguing and name calling for some time. It’s all part the experience!
Dinner at Fan’s Sports Bar & Grill
There are no restaurants within walking distance. We get a recommendation from the front desk for two options to watch TV, have a burger and a beer. We first head to the closer place which turns out NOT to have any TVs. So we head about 4 miles to the other side of town to a great place called Fan’s Sports Bar & Grill. As we drive through the town, we see how tired the town is but also see signs of rejuvenation. Fan’s is a small place with only 7 bar stools, but the staff and the food there are great. Our energetic bartender, Kyle is a gracious host and keeps us entertained. We meet Robert that works at the drive-in movie theatre that is basically next door. He buys us two beers and promises to give us free popcorn if we go the drive-in.
Day 6: Joshua Tree National Park, a Rock Show and a Drive-in Movie (day 146 of the overall trip)
Joshua Tree National Park
We start our day by heading to the north entrance of Joshua Tree National Park and it turns out the visitor center there is closed. They don’t even have a park map. We’ve both heard about this park, but somehow between the two of us, neither did much research to have set expectations for our visit. All we have is our state maps and we decide to drive to the Visitor Center at the south of the park.
A Lesson About Deserts
A placard tells us this park is where the Mojave Desert meets the Colorado Desert – two very different deserts because of differences in climate and elevation.
There are 4 true deserts in the United States which are Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan. A desert is a place of very low rainfall and restricted plant life. The word “desert” brings an image to mind of sand, rocks, cactus, tumbleweeds and heat. Great Basin is the only “cold desert” and is also the largest – it receives snow in the winter months.
There are other regions sometimes considered a desert, but by the strict definition for rainfall, they don’t officially meet the criteria. One such region is the Colorado Plateau of northern AZ and southern UT. Another region not officially a desert is The Painted Desert, in AZ. Then there are areas with a named desert that are sub-deserts within a larger desert. For example, the Black Rock Desert is in the Great Basin Desert and the Colorado Desert is in the Sonoran Desert.
The Mojave Desert receives the majority of its rainfall in the winter and has longer freezing temperatures in the winter. Being higher in elevation, it also has twice as many types and quantities of desert plant life as the other. The Colorado Desert is lower in elevation and get the majority of its rain in the summer. Its plant life is very different than that of the Mojave Desert.
Cholla Cactus Garden
We know there’s a visitor center down at Cottonwood, so we drive the 34.2 miles first so we can get information. On our way we pass through the magnificent Cholla Cactus Garden where we park and do the short hike. There are signs posted everywhere telling people to stay on the clearly marked trail and warning them not to touch the cactus. We see several folks disobeying the rules and see a few people wincing when they don’t pay attention and get pricked by the cactus.
Driving to the Visitor Center in Cottonwood
Cottonwood Visitor Center
Once to the Cottonwood Visitor Center, we get our park map and the ranger highlights places for us to see and explore.
Skull Rock
We do the drive in reverse and take the turn-off to the center section of the park. Our first stop is Skull Rock where one of the rocks along the roadside manages to look like – you guessed it – a human skull. We walk a little around the area, then get back in the truck to head to our next destination
Joshua Trees
As we transition to our next stop, we start to see a lot more Joshua Trees. The ranger at the Cottonwood Visitor Center had told us that this was the area of the park with the highest concentration of these trees.
Keys View
The stop to have lunch at Cap Rock but decide to continue on to Keys View on a side road, a place highly recommended by the ranger. We are treated to a panoramic view of the desert landscape and we end up eating some snacks in the truck.
Hidden Valley
Up next is another location called Hidden Valley that was also recommended by the ranger. There’s a 1-mile round-trip hike here and decide to stretch our legs. This is a rock-enclosed valley that was once rumored to have been used by cattle rustlers. As we hike, we pass by some folks who plan to do rock-climbing on one of the sheer cliff faces. As we round the loop, we watch their progress. We hear a faint yelp and look over to see one of the climbers lost their footing and is just dangling in the air, connected by the rope above. We watch as she tries to swing herself back and forth so she can regain her hold on the rocks, but she finally gives up and just repels down.
It is almost 3:30pm and we’ve seen the major things here that we came to see, so we continue on the road that takes us out of the park through the Joshua Tree Visitor Center in the town of Joshua Tree.
Annual Gem, Rock and Mineral Show
Nancy is excited to learn there’s an annual Gem, Rock and Mineral Show in the town of Joshua Tree this weekend. We find our way to the Sportman’s park that is hosting the show and park the truck. Temperatures are still in the 90’s but at least there’s very little humidity. The show is in a large gravel parking lot and vendors are set up in tents around the perimeter and a few rows in the center. Most of the vendors are not the type Nancy is looking for. Some have large slabs of rocks they want to sell to others so they can break them down to the finer types of pieces Nancy is looking for. Some have large towers, spheres and other display rocks. Nancy does manage to find a few stones she’ll make into jewelry and enjoys chatting with the various vendors.
Smith’s Ranch Drive-In
We head to the grocery store and buy a rotisserie chicken we’ll have for dinner in our room. After that, we head off the Smith’s Ranch Drive-In to potentially catch two first-run movies. Nancy goes to the concession stand to see if Robert is there and he’s not at the moment. It gets dark here such that the first movie, Don’t Worry Darling, begins at 7:30. You listen to the sound of the movie through your FM radio and unfortunately, since the truck isn’t running, the sound cuts off every 20 minutes and we have to turn it back on. The car next to us (2 spaces away) does keep his car running through the whole movie (probably for A/C) and it is annoying, but not unbearable. This first movie could have been great, but they seem to miss handling the ending. We aren’t sure how this place can afford to stay in business because here on a Saturday night, there might be all of 25 cars.
Between movies, Nancy heads to the concession stand again and this time she does find Robert. He not only insists that she take free popcorn, but gives her a flashlight pen with the name of the drive-in on it. She asks him if he’ll be at Fan’s tomorrow to watch football and he says he can’t because he has to get the drive-in lot cleaned up. Wrangler Jeans will be shooting a commercial on Monday and Tuesday and he’s very excited about it. As for the second movie, Beast, we had not heard of it. The “running car” beside us is gone and we decide to give it 30 minutes to see if we want to stay for the whole thing. It turns out to be better than the first movie and we stay for the whole thing.
Day 7: Twentynine Pines & Football (day 147 of the overall trip)
It is Sunday in the fall and that means a day of watching NFL football. We’re still enjoying the 3-hour time difference such that the first games start around 10:00am. We watch the first game in our room, then head out to Fan’s Sports Bar & Grill to catch the second round of games. Our bartenders today are Mary and Shay and they both provide top notch customer service. We meet bar buddies Joe & Becky – who aren’t a couple, just two friends catching a game together. We have a fantastic time chatting with them and watching multiple games at once.
Summary
Late September and early October are great windows for visiting both fantastic parks. The weather isn’t TOO hot and the main tourist season with hundreds more tourists begins mid-to-late October. Do remember, if you travel in this area, you must be vigilant about checking road conditions! A higher than normal rainy season can mean routes are closed, as we experienced this trip.
Up Next
We are going to visit San Diego, the last major city neither of us has ever visited. We will spend 5 full days exploring this city. If you know us by now, you know we usually avoid major cities – so we’ll see how it goes.
Prior Legs of the Journey
Part 1 – The Trip to Key West is located here.
Part 2 – Cross Country to Bellingham Washington is located here.
Part 3 – The Alaska Ferry Inner Passage to Juneau is located here.
Part 4- The Alaska Ferry Inner Passage to Haines & Skagway is located here.
Part 5 – Haines to Fairbanks Alaska is located here.
Part 6 – Three weeks in Fairbanks is located here
Part 7 – Fairbanks to the Arctic Ocean is located here.
Part 8 – Denali National Park is located here.
Part 9 – Denali & Richardson Highways (Central Alaska) is located here.
Part 10 – Wasilla Alaska Area is located here
Part 11 – Homer Alaska Area is located here
Part 12 – Seward Alaska Area is located here
Part 13 – Girdwood Alaska Area is located here
Part 14 – Kodiak Alaska Area is located here
Part 15 – “Back to the Lower 48” is located here
Part 16 – “The Volcano Legacy” is located here
Part 17 – Northern California is located here
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