Denali National Park

Planning on visiting the area and staying in or around the Park, any suggestions? Seems very mixed reviews on a few b+b%26#39;s and lodges.

Denali National Park

What are you looking for and where? There are some lodges in Kantishna area (end of the 90 mile road) inside the park, Skyline being the newest and cheapest of them. Outside of the park there are basically 3 areas - just north of the park entrance, in Healy (about 15 minutes drive north of the park entrance), and another area about 20 minutes drive south of the park entrance. Are you looking for a hotel / lodge, cabin, or B%26amp;B? Basic or luxury? And for how many people? Do you need kitchen facilities or any other specifics? Your question is simply too broad...

Look at the following site. Also search for Denali and for Healy on Tripadvisor and you will see accomodations listed in descending order starting with the ones with best reviews.

denalichamber.com/directory/鈥ndex.html

Denali National Park

It%26#39;s just the two of us, planning on staying 3/4 nights in the area. The hotels would probably be too price when factoring all the other costs, so we were looking for nice little b+b or cabin. Flexible when it comes to kitchen facilities as we like to eat out when holidaying.

It sounds like what we were looking for. I wend through the whole list from the Chamber website and all the places reviewed on Tripadvisor, went to all their websites to find rates. I was actually surprised to see that many B%26amp;B%26#39;s and cabins were as expensive as some of the hotels. We stayed at cabin 3 at Carlo Creek in August. I was looking for the cheapest place that was clean, quiet, and comfortable, and Carlo Creek fit that well. The setting right next to a creek and off the road was very nice. And their new laundry facilities were a bonus for us ($2 per wash and $2 per dry). They have some cheaper but new cabins without bathrooms, if you want that. But be aware that you will be waiting outside to use the shared bathhouse (with private bathrooms). I felt sorry for the people we saw waiting out in the cooler weather, wasting their time. Our cabin was one of the 5 older cabins. It had 2 beds - a queen and a twin, side tables, chairs, heater, screen on the window, was cutely decorated with dry flowers, and had a private bathroom the size of a small closet. The shower was made of metal, so there were some rust streaks showing. But the water was hot and plenty, and it was great to have a bathroom in our cabin. They have a reservation system online that shows which cabins are available. They also let us use the refrigerator and freezer in the office, but it%26#39;s only open 9 to 10, so we couldn%26#39;t take our lunch things out early in the morning before the shuttle. They don%26#39;t provide breakfast, so we bought some bagels and muffins at the supermarket in Fairbanks and had our own inexpensive breakfast. McKinley Creekside cafe is right by Carlo Creek. We had great dinner there and got coffee to go from there in the morning (their breakfast menu looked great too, but we had to leave early).