Tok Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Drove into scenery of snow capped mountains and abundant lakes and rivers. The highway got more and more bumpy as we drove along. For a while the road followed the shore of Klaune Lake. We passed into Alaska and after another hour we were in Tok. Easy, unevenful day today. We did discover that to drive to or from Alaska means you have to go thro...

There is a town in Alaska on the Taylor Highway between Tok and Dawson City named Chicken. The story goes that the original settlers of the town wanted to name the town after the state bird, the ptarmigan, but did not know how to spell it. Since the ptarmigan resembles a chicken, sort of, they did the next best thing and named the town Chicken. ...

Miles: 145 Weather: Cool, partly cloudy w/thundershowers The ride to Tok and Thompson's Eagle Claw was straight forward (no pun intended). We departed the (overpriced) Caribou Hotel in Glenallen at ~1130. The road was smooth and relatively fast. Just like every other Alaskan road, the scenery was great. By now, fourteen days into our trip, the g...

Tok Junction and a Second Chance My first "coup d'envoi" on this trip was Denali National Park. My second "coup d'envoi" was Wrangell - Saint Elias National Park. My third "coup d'envoi" was ...was.... well, I did not have one! Since I had now exhausted most of the paved and some unpaved roads in Alaska, it was time to turn my attention to the A...

May 28 - We arrived in Tok today. And at last we have cell phone coverage again. It is amazing how attached I have become to all the modern contraptions. We are staying the Sourdough Campground with WIFI, hot showers, electricity, cell phone signal. We are civilized again for the night. Tomorrow we are going to find a forest campground or somewh...

The pictures tell the story, well, not the whole story. The drive from Haines to Tok put us on the first section of the ALCAN that we'd seen and let me tell you, permafrost can be hell on a road. We literally bounced along like some kind of 70 mile an hour drive-it-yourself roller coaster. It's a ride, let me tell you. But to get to the ALCAN, y...