Sunday
7/2 Anchorage airport (get together)
car rental (3 vans, each 17' long)
overnight at Anchorage (Comfort Inn Anchorage, 111 Ship Creek Avenue; Continental breakfast)
Monday
7/3 depart for Denali National Park (238 miles; 4-hour drive)
overnight at Denali (Denali Bluffs Hotel; one mile north of park entrance)
Tuesday
7/4 Denali National Park tour
Kantishna Wilderness Trail tour (depart 6:30 am; lunch included)
overnight at Denali (Denali Bluffs Hotel; one mile north of park entrance)
Wednesday
7/5 Depart for Valdez (461 miles; 8-hour drive, longer than on 7/3)
overnight at Valdez (Mountain Sky Hotel Valdez, 10 Meals Avenue)
Thursday
7/6 Valdez tour
ferry to Whittier, then Seward
drive through Whittier tunnel (2.5-mile Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel for railway and highway use)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKkGGF4LSA
overnight at Seward (Harbor 360 Hotel, 1412 4th Avenue, Seward, AK; Continental breakfast)
Friday
7/7 Seward tour (departs at 10 am and returns at 6:30 pm)
glacier cruise: Kenai Fjords National Park and Fox Island (lunch included)
dinner at a private lodge for a wild Alaskan salmon and prime rib buffet. (1/2 lb King Crab extra)
Bear Glacier Lake (Lagoon)
Kenai National National Wildlife Refuge
overnight at Seward (Harbor 360 Hotel, 1412 4th Avenue, Seward, AK; Continental breakfast)
Saturday
7/8 departure for Anchorage
overnight at Anchorage (Comfort Inn Anchorage, 111 Ship Creek Avenue; Continental breakfast)
Sunday
7/9 Katmai National Park tour
overnight at Anchorage (Comfort Inn Anchorage, 111 Ship Creek Avenue; Continental breakfast)
Monday
7/10 Anchorage Airport: Going home