Denali National Park 7/16-7/20

Young bull moose in Denali National Park
We stayed in Denali Park for 5 days and it was an incredible experience.  We saw lots of wildlife and met people from different parts of the US and different countries.
The first day we took a tour bus from the Denali Bus Depot to mile 62 where the tour buses turn around. The trip takes 9 hours with a 15 min bathroom and walk about break every hour or so. Sometimes there were so many buses stopped at the same place, you only had time to get in the long bathroom line. On that trip we saw moose, caribou, grizzly bears, arctic squirrels, willow ptarmigan and saw a slice of Denali Mountain.  The mountain was hazed over for most of our stay here.

After the bus tour we drove our RV to our campsite at Teklanika. The next morning we set off on our bikes into the interior of the park. We rode for about 2 hours and decided to hop on a bus for the return trip.  They have shuttles that run through the park and if they have room for you, you can get on. You have to have purchased  pass to use the shuttle and a pass for your bike. (No extra charge for the bikes)  the road was so gravelly in places it was hard for me to get traction.  (I need wider wheels).
More later...

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It was hard to get pictures of every animal due to distance or vehicle moving. We saw a HUGE bull moose in the road on our way to our campsite in our RV, but by the time I got out the camera it had jumped into the bushes and was not visible anymore. We were to astonished to use our phone cameras. I kept the big camera in my lap most of the time after that.

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