Denali Backcountry Guides
Guided, naturalist hiking tours in Denali, Alaska
Explore Denali
Guided, naturalist hiking tours in Denali, Alaska
Experience the wilderness of Alaska
ABOUT US
We are a guiding service in the Denali Park National Park area that has been operating since 1996. In 1998 we began leading Heli-hike trips with ERA Helicopters (now TEMSCO) and have been providing that service proudly since then. Along with Heli-hike trips we offer interpretive hikes, walking tours and overnight trips that offer the best of Alaska wilderness travel. Our overnight trips are custom designed to fit travelers time frame and experience.
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Our guides are among the most experienced in Alaska. Each guide has a minimum of five years guiding experience in Alaska. Combined they have guided throughout Alaska, spent decades hiking, climbing and packrafting in the Alaska Range. Our goal is to share our knowledge and love of Alaska. As career wilderness professionals, we are working to pass on wilderness skills to a new generation of guides, as well as travelers.
Choose where your adventure begins...
Small group sizes and experienced guides make our tours unique & memorable
OVERNIGHT TRIPS
DAY HIKES
DENALI WALKING TOUR
3 hour tour $110/person
Hiking Level: Moderate
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This is our most popular trip. Meet your guide in the lobby of the local hotel. Drive times are short and group size is small (2-8 travelers).
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Walking with an experienced local naturalist is really a great way to see the complicated connections of plants, animals, and people within the splendor of true wilderness in Alaska. The boreal forest in the lower elevations gives way to specialized sub arctic ecosystems like taiga and tundra. The permafrost areas and fantastic mountains are home to plants and animals highly adapted to the harsh elements. Your guide will stop frequently to explain this in depth.
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DENALI WILDERNESS HIKING TOUR
5 hour tour $140/person
Hiking Level: Strenuous
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This tour is for the more fit travelers. While still a narrated tour, the interpretive hike covers more ground, and explores the glacier topology in depth. The extra time on the ground gives the group a chance to see the forested area near the Nenana river, the brushy but wildlife rich sub-alpine tundra, and the gorgeous views and highly adapted vegetation of the taiga.
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