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Southcentral: Copper River Valley

Glennallen provides access to the Wrangell Mountains, a popular destination for backcountry recreation, superb sport fishing, river rafting and Native cultures. Copper Center, which lies a few miles east of Glennallen, is the home of the ranger station for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the largest national park in the United States. If you are looking to visit the historic mining towns of McCarthy and Kennicott, take the Edgerton Highway and McCarthy Road for an exciting drive on a 93-mile paved/gravel road.


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terry vanduser

We took a single engine plane trip from Copper River Lodge to The Kennicott Copper Mine and McCarthy.  It was a beautiful flight over the  Wrangle Mts.  Taking off from the grass field and landing on the gravel air strip at the mine was an experience that I will never forget. Being in the wilderness is just amazing!  We and another couple were the only ones on the tour and we...

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terry and nancy vanduser

We took our first big trip to Alaska in 2004 and loved it so much that we went back in 2006.  We cruised both times with the land trips. The first one was the north bound cruise and 4 days on land ending up in Fairbanks. We went to a salmon bake and visited glaciers.  We spent two nights in Copper Canyon and took a plane trip to Kennicott. It was the most memorible experience we will ever have. A ...

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