Whittier to Anchorage Half Day Transit Tour From the Port
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Our shuttle to Anchorage is an amazing journey through the Chugach Mountains and along the Turnagain Arm where the beauty of Alaska will not disappoint! Look for Beluga Whales, Sea Otters, and Dall Sheep as we wind our way into Anchorage. Our first stop will be Portage Valley, the home of 7 glaciers. Our next stop is the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, which is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving Alaska’s wildlife, you'll see Brown and Black Bears, Moose, Wood Bison, Wolves, Caribou, and many other species. Girdwood Brewery is our next stop for lunch then on into Anchorage we'll stop by a Chocolate factory and Gift shop and enjoy some sweet samples. Our next stop is Earthquake Park and finally Lake Hood (the largest Sea Plane base in America) and watch these amazing pilots take off and land. This is truly a wonderful tour that you will thoroughly enjoy and talk about for years to come. At the end of the tour, we will drop you off anywhere in Anchorage at your request!
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The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Alaska’s wildlife through conservation, education, research, and quality animal care. AWCC takes in injured and orphaned animals and provides them with a permanent home. The Center hosts numerous educational and daily guest programs, including the Walk on the Wild Side tour, where you can get a closer look at the Alaska Wildlife that makes its home here. AWCC also offers up-close animal encounters in the summer featuring moose or brown bears. There are many animals that call AWCC home including black and brown bears, moose, elk, lynx, caribou, muskox, bison, reindeer, wolves, foxes, deer, and more. Choose between driving the 1.5-mile loop, or spending your time walking through the 200 acres that make up the AWCC Campus.
There are have local Food Trucks on-site every day throughout the summer months, and on weekends in the winter months. Lunch at a scenic brewery with food trucks is an experience that blends great food, craft beer, and the beauty of nature. Imagine sitting at a wooden picnic table on a sun-dappled patio, surrounded by lush greenery and rolling mountains. The air is fresh, and a gentle breeze carries the earthy scent of hops and grilled food. The 3,040 square foot brewery and taproom has panoramic views of the surrounding Chugach mountains, you can cozy up to a beer in our timber framed taproom. There is an awesome beer garden with a fire pit, for those who prefer enjoy their beers in a more natural setting.
Earthquake Park gives visitors insight into one of the pivotal moments in Alaska history: the 1964 Earthquake. The quake on March 27 – Good Friday – measured 9.2 in magnitude and was the largest quake ever recorded in North America. A sharp drop-off north of the park and the peculiar rippling hills in the forest below are evidence of the massive earthquake that forever altered Anchorage’s landscape. Informative displays tell the story of the geological forces at play that day, and Anchorage history before and since the quake.
Alaska's Lake Hood Seaplane Base is the World's Largest & Busiest Seaplane Base. The Lake Hood Seaplane Base, or Lake Hood Floatplane Base is located around four miles from downtown Anchorage. Visitors and passengers can see almost 1,000 float planes parked all over the sea bases lake. Watch the float planes take off and land! Learn the history behind it.
Remaining 1.50 hours will be allotted for travel time, between stops, from pickup in Whittier to drop off in Anchorage.
Sampling the finest Chocolates! There are four kitchens called the Jam and Jelly Kitchen, Hot Kitchen, Candy Kitchen, and the Molding Room. You can watch all four kitchens in action through the viewing windows in our store See Alaska's 20-Foot Chocolate Waterfall. The chocolate waterfall incorporates over 3000 pounds of chocolate, authentic copper candy kettles, and a specially built warming and mixing system. The chocolate gushes out of the fountain head, cascades down the kettles, then settles in the swirling chocolate pool. An amazing sight to see!
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- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(92)
It's a nice way to finish off the end of your cruise.... The driver was great. All of the stops were wonderful, and the driver was also very nice and knowledgeable.... I always say you can't get better scenery in alaska than the drive from whittier to anchorage. Scenic splendor.
A great way to see some "off the beaten trail" spots on the way yo Anchorage. Would be really great for those that are flying out the same day as it eats up a good bit of time. At the airport drop off, the guide told those with laye flights they could drop off their bags at airport storage then brought them in to downtown as well. Our guide (Dan) was super friendly, knowledgeable, and went out of his way to accommodate everyone. Would definitely recommend.
This transit tour was an entertaining way to spend the day traveling from the port of debarkation to the Anchorage airport. There were multiple stops for photos, visits to a wildlife refuge and chocolate factory, and an enjoyable lunch at a brewery. Our host was very knowledgeable and entertaining and went out of his way to make sure that we were taken care of.
It was fantastic. Ken took us to some wonderful places and offered great knowledge of Alaska. Highly recommend taking this tour.
Dan was a great guide very knowledgeable and friendly and couldn’t do enough to make the tour enjoyable. Highly recommend White Raven tours AK!
Great transfer! We had a lot of rain but Kim did a great job making the stops as enjoyable as possible. We loved the conservation center and the chocolate factory, and the whole tour was very smooth. Kim did a great job accommodating my mom with mobility issues. I would book with this company again.
Clean vans. Very friendly and informative guide. Highly recommend
Great way to get from the cruise ship to the airport! Lots of fun stops with great views and even saw a mama moose with her baby!
Fantastic half day trip between our cruise and airport drop off ! Dan and Kim were very knowledgeable, helpful and very easy going ! You could tell they loved what they were doing and were in no rush at all . We got to see a lot in the amount of time we had available! Highly recommend this !
We had a last minute booking White Raven for our travel from the cruise ship to Anchorage. It’s the beginning of our travel started with the employees at the port not allowing us to enter the parking lot to get on the van. Dan Dan got out of the van and went to go look for us by that time we had made it over to the van. This is just one small detail out of many that made us very happy with this choice for transportation. The list of stops and places we passed by made for the price of this transportation in and of itself. Dan took the to talk personally with each passenger, which also made for a very pleasant experience because you felt like you were an important part of the journey. All of the tour guides that we had during our vacation, he was hands-down, the most knowledgeable and gave us, what felt like, the most accurate and reliable information versus a lot of the tall tales that we heard along the way he also made sure that we knew that he researched his information and that he wasn’t providing second hand accounts of stories that may not be true or factual. I personally appreciate this because I am one to go research information for validity. I also don’t want to go back home to the people stories about Alaska that aren’t true. The places that were curated for our stock were amazing. We stopped at portage glacier, Lake Hood, the animal conservation place, and a couple other lakes. The pictures and views were beautiful. We stopped at a fantastic brewery with food trucks for lunch and a chocolate factory with excellent chocolate. We then traveled to view earthquake park, where we learned about the events of that tragic day and then to the sea plane storage area. Again, Dan filled our minds with wonderful information you just don’t get out of an every day tour guide. The ultimate icing on the cake though, we needed to stop somewhere to ship a bag back. Without hesitation he took us to the post office to get this done, saving us about 40 bucks in transport fees if we had to be dropped off at one or catch a cab from airport and back. He also personally took one couple direct to their AirBnB and another group to check their luggage at the airport and dropped them off in downtown or so to enjoy their final few hours in town before flying out. He was so pleasant about all this and to go this extra mile for his guest is simply amazing. They don’t have to do this and no one should be expect any guide to go to this level of accommodation and personalization. Alaska will loose a true gem if the day comes when he and his spouse No longer offer guides. Oh!! And they also do different excursions, so be sure to ask about those and take them. If we were staying an extra couple days like originally planned, we would have immediately booked the glacier walk tour they offer as well. Thank you so much for a fantastic last day in Alaska that was stress free, insightful and very very enjoyable. It was a pleasure!!!
It was a pleasure showing you both part of Alaska and thank you soooo much for your kind words. I truly hope you and your husband return for that glacier walk!!! Dan
