Tok, United States Travel Blogs

Toyota Bandeirante in the Alaska !
Aug 4, 2011 (1 photos)

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Chitina to Tok
Jul 24, 2009 (7 photos)

Continued north on the Richardson highway through the Copper Center Loop, which has a nice view of the river. The Tok Cutoff road was really, really bad—roller coaster, gravel, and construction.  There were great views of snow-capped   ...

Tok, Alaska
Jun 29, 2007

... reading about where we wanted to visit. (As the town that people must drive through when both entering and leaving Alaska, Tok provides travelers a couple of wonderful visitor centers, so we had picked up about a bushel of information brochures.) Our stay ...

Tok, Alaska, United States
Aug 22, 2009 (1 photos)

... August 22 - Tok, AK Hallelujah!  We are on our way back to the town of Mukluk Land and pancake tossing! We return to Tok to spend one night before we head to Destruction Bay, YT.  Our travel day was fairly uneventful - which is sometimes a good ...

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Jun 26, 2008

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Tok RV Park
Aug 17, 2008

Only spent one night at Tok. Washed the Trailer and Truck because the road from Valdez to Tok was full of pot holes and gravel spots and muddy. Ray and Christa

Unterwegs nach Alaska
Jun 2, 2008 (4 photos)

... 8 US$/Person dürfen wir die Grenze passieren. Scheinbar haben wir auch alle Fragen korrekt beantwortet. Die Äpfel dürfen wir mitnehmen...Made in US :-) Ankunft in Tok und Übernachtung im B&B bei Helga. Wir durften das beste Frühstück in Alaska geniessen!

Auf dem Alaska Highway
Jun 14, 2008 (7 photos)

Unterwegs zurück nach Tok. Dabei kommen wir bei North Pole vorbei. Den Weihnachtsmann haben wir auch gesehen.

Tok RV Park
Jul 24, 2008 (12 photos)

... 3 miles of gravel road than asphalt the rest of the way, the asphalt was full of potholes and frost heaves. The gravel road was better.In Tok with a fill up we got a free car wash, so we all got together and had a car wash party. We wash all 23 rigs. We ...

Whitehorse to Tok - Day 7
May 12, 2009 (11 photos)

I woke them up really early this morning. Val was the first to get up. If I put my cold nose just right into her ear she jumps right up. Dave is another story - he's a hard core snoozer. Val let me out on my lead, and let me tell you I did not linger ...

Tok, Alaska, United States
Jul 24, 2009

... 2  After enjoying a hearty meal of chicken in Chicken last night, our Tailgunner, Richard, asked that everyone wait to depart for Tok no earlier than 8:00.  This is an early rising bunch.  By 8:00, it was like the Indy 500 around camp with ...

Tok, Alaska, Alaska, United States
Jul 25, 2009 (34 photos)

Saturday, July 25 - Tok, Alaska, United States - Day 2 of 2 Sourdough Campground has a small cafe where we all had breakfast of pancakes, reindeer sausage, biscuits and gravy, sausage patties, and fruit. After breakfast, Art and I inquired about the local ...

Back in the USA
Aug 5, 2007 (12 photos)

... the line and was back in the USA, land of miles not kilometers with too much Canadian money left in my wallet. I stopped in Tok at an RV campground called Sourdough. What a trip. This place was full of white haired men and women in enormous RVs. They ...

Haines to Tok
May 30, 2006 (9 photos)

... up just like he did at the beach. We saw a range of temps today from 41 at the top of the Chilkat to 74 here in Tok. On the pass, the Canadians customs dude was a grumpy cuss. I think he was upset because he was enormously fat and had to live at the ...

féérique/extraordinaire
Aug 10, 2007

... 16000 pieds. (voir photo).Par la suite le petit village de Copper pittoresque mais pas grand chose à montrer. Puis la route vers Tok. Certaines des photos j'ai attendu une heure que la brûme se lève. Demain de retour sur la partie du Alaska Highway que nous ...

Tok
Jul 27, 2007

... , nous avons filé sur Chicken, un bled perdu où juste après nous sommes retombés sur l'asphalte. Quel bonheur, et nous sommes arrivés à Tok vers 4hrs. Après une bonne douche j'ai pu enfin dire comme l'auto-collant moi aussi j'ai survécu au top of the world Highway ...

ALASKA!!!! We made it!!!! Haines Junction to Tok
Jun 20, 2008 (20 photos)

... mountain - the people in from of me were SO SLOW I thought I might get stuck in the mud. Finally around 2:00 we reached TOK and the Sourdough Campground. We set up camp after looking at our now brown rig and truck. A light and our balance broke during the ...

FROST HEAVES AND FIREWEED
Jun 24, 2009 (6 photos)

Hello Family and Friends,  Can you believe it?  We are actually in Alaska.....drove 391 miles today.....most of it 40 mph or less.  The frost heaves were the worst ever!  Huge dips....craters really, and when Woody turned it over to me ...

Welcome to Alaska
Jun 19, 2008 (5 photos)

Destination 243: km125'332 Die ganze Nacht hat es pausenlos geregnet bei Haines, am Morgen flaute es aber kurzfristig zu schwachem Regen ab. Bis zur Bruecke ueber den White River musste ich wegen des Regens und seinen tief haengenden Wolken eine ( ...

Tok Junction and a Second Chance
Sep 22, 2007 (67 photos)

... road, there is no visual pay-off like McCarthy or Kennecott; instead "true Alaska wilderness beckons". By the time I had reached Tok, (remember, rhymes with Coke) I had looked at the map often enough to remove any doubt that I had a second chance to ...

On The Road Again (Afternoon)
Aug 3, 2008 (17 photos)

... Don't ask me how or why this happens. I continued South on the Taylor Highway that eventually joined the Alaska Highway just East of Tok. I have a campsite in Tok and am looking forward to a long rest tonight. Aug 2: Distance Travelled: 335 Miles 536 ...

Watson Lake, YT to Tok, AK via Whitehorse
Jun 12, 2007 (20 photos)

... the night, I start to panic thinking it's late, when it's only 2:30 in the morning, or 3:30 or 4:30 . . . I found a B&B in Tok for $50 which was a miracle, the next cheapest was $65 in a motel. The place was typical Alaska; crap everywhere. The owner ...

July 1, 2005, Tok, Alaska
Jul 2, 2005

July 1, 2005 Back in the good ol' US of A! Here we are, west of the Yukon Territory, in Tok, Alaska. We are in a very nice RV Park - complete with trees, wide pull through sites with full hook-ups and even WiFi! It doesn't take much to make me happy ...

OUR DAY IN TOK
Jun 25, 2009 (3 photos)

...  we want?  Tok is 92 miles from the Canadian border......milepost 1314 Alaska Highway at the junction with Tok Cutoff (Glenn Highway......328 miles to Anchorage).......Richardson Highway......206 miles to Fairbanks.  And that's where we're ...

Tok Junction
May 22, 2005 (3 photos)

Back in the U.S and not far from the Arctic Circle. Yahoo!

Time to head home - Fairbanks to Tok
Jul 17, 2008 (10 photos)

... get last chance Alaska stuff. Back at camp, Pooh and I went to the little concert put on by a honky-tonk band from Tok. I also ordered their reindeer chili in a sourdough bread bowl with a piece of Blueberry Pie. Good food and good entertainment. At the ...

Aloha from Alaska
Jul 4, 2006 (5 photos)

Ok so Aloha isn't the official greeting from Alaska, but its time for another update. I left my parents house in Traverse City MI on 06/23 and headed to Michigan's Upper Penisula going across the Maciknaw Bridge. I spent one night in the UP (Upper ...

The Beginning of the End
Oct 2, 2005 (6 photos)

... /or non existant. I flipped on the radio- there was gospal and there was a preacher. That kind of gave me the idea that Tok may be a little strange. But I went back anyway. The lady that checked me into the hotel was strange too- neither mean nor nice- ...

To Tok
Aug 3, 2008 (4 photos)

... large town before the border.  As we drove north the sun went behind the clouds and we followed rain all the way to Tok.  The scenery was tempered by the clouds.  We stopped by the Cobb Lakes to eat lunch.  We planned to stay at ...

Where is Chicken, Alaska
Aug 5, 2008 (21 photos)

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.  ...