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Mckinley RV Park & Campground is the best of its kind in all of Denali (a.k.a. Mckinley) National Park, Alaska. Our proximity to the Park Road, wide range of sites to choose from, shuttle to the park and location off the highway make us an easy choice.
Directions to McKinley RV and Campground is about 56 mi. south of Nenana on Parks Highway/George Parks Highway. Or, about 10 mi. north of Denali National Park and is located directly behind the Healy Gas Station, (Miners Market), at mile 248.5 of the Parks Highway.
Facilities and Amenities:
•Total campsites: 61
•Unserviced campsites available
•Power campsites available
•Power and water campsties available
•Power water and sewer campsites available
•Some campsites are for seasonal rental
•30 amp. service available
•WiFi
•Tables provided at campsites
•Free showers
•Flush toilets
•Sewage dumping station
•Laundry facilities
•Playground
•Propanes sales
Camping in Denali
Just 10 miles north of The Park Road in Healy, the campground offers a tranquil setting close to all the action. Our shuttle runs on a regular schedule and will bring you to The Park as well as other popular Denali locations; you don’t even have to unhitch your RV!
Healy is the closest full-service, year-round community to the world-famous Denali National Park and Preserve and offers an abundance of lodging and activities to park visitors and highway travelers in Interior Alaska.
About Healy
Healy is located about 11 miles north of the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve along the George Parks Highway in Interior Alaska. Originally established as a coal-mining town in the early 1900s, many of Healy’s 1,025 residents still earn their livings from the nearby Usibelli Coal Mine. Tourism is the second-largest industry for this small town, though, and Healy features several restaurants, hotels, motels and lodges along with flightseeing operators that take visitors on scenic tours of Mount McKinley.
Things to do
To the north of Healy, on the highway's western side, is the historic Stampede Trail, originally built in the 1930s as a route to the Stampede Mine, once Alaska's prime producer of antimony. The mine ceased operations in 1970, and since 1980 its abandoned mill and other buildings have been located within Denali National Park and Preserve’s expanded borders. Today the trail is a rugged track used primarily by snowmobilers, mushers and skiers in late winter, when travel is easier. The wilderness trail does draw a number of summer visitors who want to view the Fairbanks City bus where Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer’s 1997 bestseller Into The Wild, lived and died. In Healy, visitors can arrange ATV tours of the trail for stunning views of Mount McKinley and the Savage and Teklanika rivers.
Usibelli Coal Mine conducts daily one-hour tours throughout the summer. Guests visit its quality-control office, main shop, warehouse, coal hopper and crusher.
Alaska RV Travel
Everything is cheaper in Healy then at the Park entrance. Plus, we’re located on the north side of the mountains so when the Park entrance goes into the shadows we get several extra hours of the midnight sun. With our onsite deli and grocery and gas station with propane, we have everything you’ll need at our Denali campground.
Life at Denali National Park, Alaska
Denali National Park and Preserve surrounds Mt. McKinley (the largest mountain in North America) with over 5 million acres of wilderness. The Park is a natural home for dozens of wildlife species including Dall Sheep, Grizzly Bear, Black Bear, Wolf, Fox, Beaver, Moose, and Caribou.
The Park is located 120 miles south of Fairbanks and 240 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska on the George Parks Highway. There are very few towns or facilities between these two major cities, and therefore, the Park area is somewhat isolated.
Lodges, restaurants, gift shops, gas stations, convenience stores, and various other visitor-related services can be found spread out within a few miles of the Park entrance road. But with 5,000 visitors and 1,000 employees in the Park area each day, accommodations can at times be scarce so it's best to make reservations early.
Local activities include hiking and camping in and around the Park, wildlife viewing, flight-seeing, jet boating, fishing, golfing, photography, river rafting, and the Park Service shuttle bus tours.
The Denali National Park and Preserve Web Site has all the latest information on in-park happenings.
Go to their website at www.nps.gov/dena
Temperatures can range from the mid 20's in early May and September to 85 degrees in July. Normal temperatures are in the high 60's with nights cooling off to between 40 and 50 degrees. It can rain a fair amount, and you may need to adjust clothing several times a day as the weather in the mountains changes frequently. Layered clothing is recommended. It will be daylight 24 hours a day throughout May, June, and the first 1/2 of July. By early September it gets dark by 8PM with sunrise around 6AM.
Medical care is available at the Healy Clinic 10 miles to the North. Emergency care is provided in Fairbanks via ambulance or Air Evac in extreme instances. There are many doctors and a hospital in Fairbanks.
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