Alaska offers many ways to have an outdoor adventure: you can hike, go white-water rafting, use a sea kayak or bike. And you can wake up in the wilderness, spending the night in a campsite in a national park or at a private site. Guided camping trips provide all the equipment to make your vacation a success.
Private Camping
If you want to stay at an intimate campsite, Adventure Alaska owns its campsites. You set up camp at the base of Gulkana Glacier and Copper River for the Yukon River Canoe Adventure. On the Alaska Wild Multi-Sport Adventure, camps include one on the Jack River and another on a glacial island. Hike in Denali and Wrangell-St. Elias National Parks and on the Matanuska Glacier, go river rafting on class IV and V rapids and go sea kayaking.
Multisport Camping
If you have a strong sense of adventure, Get Up & Go! tours feature tent camping and a variety of outdoor adventures, including hiking, sea kayaking, glacier trekking, ice climbing, white-water rafting and canoeing. Small groups of seven to 12 have one or two guides. The Camp & Cabin option has some nights in tents and some in cabins, so you are only roughing it half the time.
Winter Camping
Believe it or not, you can camp out in the winter in Alaska. Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours provides tents, warm sleeping bags with sleeping pad and meals. Ride a snowmobile into the wilderness and try ice fishing. You will see a lot of wildlife and learn how to drive a snowmobile. Although you are not hiking on these trips, your body works hard to keep itself warm.
Base Camp Hiking Trips
If you want to camp out but not carry a heavy backpack with all your gear, Pangaea Adventures has a great option. Fly in tours bring you into the backcountry, where you set up a base camp and go on day hikes. The multiday guided tour of Wrangell-St Elias National Park includes glacier hikes. One tour in Bremner Valley has alpine hiking in the Chugach Mountains.
Family Fun
For a well-heeled family, Alaska offers family friendly camping trips. Backroads has a family multisport camping trip, for kids ages 6 and up, where you bike, hike, raft and sea kayak on the Kenai Peninsula. You camp in deluxe tents in Chugach National Forest and Anchor Point; chefs prepare gourmet meals and guides take care of all the equipment. You don't even have to set up your tent.
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