10-night Denali Explorer Cruisetour #AA3

Glide into College Fjord where you will be completely surrounded by 16 ice-blue glaciers. Each was named for one of the Ivy League colleges by members of the expedition that discovered them.

Step off your ship into a waiting railcar for our exclusive Direct-to-the-Wilderness rail service to the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge. Get settled, and perhaps do an optional excursion. Or you may enjoy the spectacular main lodge, river view deck, and Princess Village with the popular Christmas cottage and sugar shack. Be sure to check out Fannie Q's Saloon, named after a famed local homesteader, or sit outside at a fireside patio.

This morning, take a Natural History Tour into Denali National Park watching for glimpses of Denali and Denali's "Big Five"; moose, bears, caribou, Dall sheep and wolves. In the afternoon, depart via motorcoach to the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge. The main attraction is Denali, the 20,310 foot mountain visible from nearly anywhere on the lodge's property.

Sit and gaze at the majesty of "The Great One" from the lodge's treehouse designed and built by Pete Nelson of Animal Planet's Treehouse Masters. The morning is free to either relax at the lodge or choose one of many optional excursions. Continue by motorcoach to Anchorage and overnight at the Hotel Captain Cook.

Your tour ends this morning in Anchorage.