Healy, United States Travel Blogs

Rocky and Bullwinkle, Called On Account of Rain
Jun 20, 2005 (74 photos)

... crunch granola bars. I'd read about Henry's Coffeehouse on the internet, and had printed off the address. Just outside of Healy. I called (this was a local!) and confirmed that they were open for dinner. The day was brightening. The pictures go forward ...

Unterwegs zum Denali National Park
Jun 11, 2008 (6 photos)

Fahrt zum Denali National Park. Blick auf den Mount McKinley.

Moose and other stuff...
Jun 26, 2009 (5 photos)

June 18th to the 24th The three of us are at work in Savage Campground, and we love our job. It's fun and it’s healthy. We get lots of exercise, and since we are not able to run to the supermarket when we have a taste for pork chops – we plan ...

Rafting the Nenana and climbing Mt. Healy
Aug 29, 2009 (3 photos)

... the river. Thank you Lisa! Since rafting the Nenana was not enough excitement for one day, Natalie, Dan and Val decide to try climbing Mt. Healy. There is a trail that takes you to the top of one of the ridges. Up and up they go, pausing along the way to ...

Denali Highway
Jun 2, 2009 (12 photos)

June 1, 2009 Denali Highway: "The Denali Highway is 135 miles long and connects Paxson on the Richardson Highway with Cantwell Junction on the Parks Highway. A loop from Fairbanks is 436 miles, and a loop trip from Anchorage is about 600 miles." Several ...

Poop
Jun 11, 2009 (1 photos)

SCAT   Starts with an "s" and ends with a "t" Comes out of you and it comes out of me I know what you're thinking, it could be called that But be scientific and call it scat!   You're walking thru the woods and your nose goes "ewwww!" ...

Flight and landing on a glacier
Jul 4, 2009 (6 photos)

... ;s was in the very back. Dave had an anxious moment on the way back when the girl sitting next to him asked for the "Healy parachute" which is actually the “barf bag.” Yikes! Fortunately, she did not have to use it, but Dave is pretty squeamish ...

Rides in the country and Tom Strand's grave
Aug 12, 2009 (7 photos)

... for me. I mainly like to nap when I am not sniffing. From Lignite Road we backtrack down the George Parks Highway to Healy, and drive through town. We go past the Healy Airport (Healy International LOL) and past the power plant and the Usibelli Coal Mine. ...

Last trip out into the park...
Sep 8, 2009 (20 photos)

Last trip out into the park… Val has wanted to go to Wonder Lake for two summers, and Dave does not want to ride the bus. As the season comes to a close, Val has decided to take the bus to Wonder Lake by herself. It turns out to be a good choice. ...

Travel day to Denali National Park
Aug 26, 2008 (5 photos)

Today was a travel day to Denali National Park.  Our accommodations are at the Denali Suites, a converted apartment building in Healy, AK, about 10 minutes north of the park.  We have a three bedroom suite, with two full baths.  It's quite ...

Rose's and Nord Haven
Aug 9, 2008

... my whole mind was on trying to keep warm, and not on keeping the bike upright. So I came upon Rose's Café on the outskirts on Healy Alaska, and stopped for two cups of tea and a hot breakfast. I asked Bill, one of the owners, if there was a motel nearby, ...

Savage Loop Trail
Jun 6, 2009 (8 photos)

June 3 Since this is our last day off for awhile we decide to do the Savage Loop hike. But first we went into Healy to do some banking, stopped at the canoe rental place on Otto Lake Rd. to get details on renting a boat for fishing on our next days off, ...

Irish Gems
Aug 8, 2009 (1 photos)

Late one afternoon there was a knock at the door, and when Val opened it she was looking at a lovely young woman with blond hair and blue eyes. With a lilt in her voice she asks, "I was wondering if there is a ranger program in the park tonight, and if ...

Fireweed
Sep 4, 2009 (5 photos)

Fireweed The state flower of Alaska is the Forget-me-not. I have been in Alaska for two summers now, and I have traveled from Barrow to Homer without seeing any Forget-me-nots. Fireweed on the other hand is prolific everywhere. Well, not in Barrow… ...

Bear, Moose, Lynx
Jun 16, 2009 (7 photos)

... not have a camera with us. Val went to Mass at the WAC (Wilderness Access Center) tonight. The priest from the mission in Healy comes into the park to offer Mass during the summer. The mission has a problem - their septic system must be replaced, and ...

Fires n' smoke n' other stuff
Jul 11, 2009 (8 photos)

July 10, 2009 Yesterday was our first day "off" after 7 days of being “on.” The three of us got up early and headed right for Fairbanks. We looked for signs of wildfires on our way, but we could not see anything from the George Parks Highway ...

Fall colors and wolf control...
Sep 3, 2009 (6 photos)

September 1, 2009 Even though we have had many days of rain, the fall colors are still beautiful here in Denali Park. We are being teased today with some blue patches of sky, and occasional glimpses of sun. This morning we could even see part of the ...

Bear paw marks on the wall...
Jul 20, 2009 (1 photos)

July 17, 2009 Last night the interpretive ranger came into Savage Camp to do a presentation on lynx. The rangers do various programs in the amphitheatre every night at 7:30 except Wednesdays and Fridays, and they are all excellent. So the ranger is just ...

The Lynx Locator
Jun 28, 2009 (1 photos)

June 27, 2009 We are on our days off and not doing much to speak of. It is cold and cloudy today, and we are expecting intermittent rain showers. Val went into the WAC for church so Dave and I stayed back at camp and fixed supper. We made pot roast, and ...

ATV tour
Aug 4, 2009 (11 photos)

... the safety test anyway.) The ride was fun with stops at Dry Creek, and at the top of a bluff overlooking Otto Lake and Healy, Alaska. The view from the bluff is spectacular. By the time they get back to Black Diamond they look like black diamonds. Boy, ...

Day 3: Talkeetna and Healy
Jul 26, 2008 (2 photos)

... ). Since the weather was so bad, and we couldn't really do much in Talkeetna since everything is outdoors, we headed north to Healy. A short time before getting to Healy we stopped for a late lunch at the Salmon Bake, located across the street from the ...

Climbing Mt. Margaret
Aug 20, 2009 (3 photos)

... bridge and then past the bridge a hill or two. As they were resting on top of the second hill some nice people from the United Kingdom stopped to chat. The gentleman said, "Look over on that hill across the river – I think it's a wolf or something." ...

Moose in rut.
Sep 9, 2009 (7 photos)

09-09-09 Val had a good day on her birthday. She met with Jane Lakeman, and chose some items from the park archives she wished to have. Jane scanned them and then copied them to disc for Val. She got some pretty cool stuff. Her day actually started out ...

Goodbye Caribou, Hello Dome Home!
May 30, 2009 (20 photos)

... met some people from West Virginia! It was now about 5:30 PM and we still had over 3 hours drive to get to Healy and the Dome Home Bed & Breakfast. Now we were cautiously optimistic about this B&B because we had several communications with ...

Denali
Sep 9, 2008 (23 photos)

Had the privilidge of spending time with Mom, Dad and Haley in Denali NP, Autumn was unbelievable. The mountains and flats are blanketed in rich burgundy, intense yellows, sparse brilliant orange and evergreen all merging with continuously variable ...

Hikers in trouble
Aug 21, 2009 (1 photos)

August 13, 2009 At approximately 2:45 a.m. this morning there was a knock at our trailer door. When Val answered the door a man and a woman were there and they stated that they had a problem. Val asked, What's the matter? And the story goes as follows: ...

Denali, Hikes and Flight
Jun 5, 2008 (14 photos)

After finishing a contract in Fairbanks I had a great opportunity to stop and see Haley on the way back to Anchorage between jobs.  We did some fun hikes and Haley hooked me up with an airplane ride around the tallest mountains on the continent and ...

Rose's and Nord Haven
Aug 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... my whole mind was on trying to keep warm, and not on keeping the bike upright. So I came upon Rose's Café on the outskirts on Healy Alaska, and stopped for two cups of tea and a hot breakfast. I asked Bill, one of the owners, if there was a motel nearby, ...

Denali National Park
Aug 27, 2008 (20 photos)

... 13 hour tour through the Denali National Park.  We are to meet our bus at the Denali Chalet Resort, about ten miles south of Healy.  We had a wake up call at 5:00 a.m., and by 6:00 a.m. we were loading ourselves into the van for the short ride to ...

Rampaging Red Squirrels
Jul 21, 2009 (1 photos)

... is good in our world. On Monday there were close to 1 million acres on fire in Alaska. There was a new fire 5 miles from Healy, but there were 100 firefighters on it because it was threatening homes and cabins. It was so smoky here at Savage that the smoke ...