| IF YOU WILL BE ARRIVING BY
BUS |
Arriving buseswill drop you at the Denali National
Park Visitors Center or the Wilderness Access Center (WAC). At the WAC you can make reservations for one of
the Park tour buses. At the Visitors Center you can check your luggage, familiarize yourself with the Park goings-on
or pick up the free park shuttle to the free 2pm dog sled demonstration. There are also great options for hiking on one of the many entrance area trails. The Morino Grill and park book store are adjacent to the Visitors Center. The Hostel Shuttle will pick you up at 5:30pm at the WAC, near the flag pole.
| **If you use this time to make reservations
for one of the Park buses, keep in mind that the hostel shuttle
will get you to the Park in the morning at 7:00am, not earlier.** |
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See our Hostel
Shuttle page for important details on our hostel shuttle.
See our FAQs
page for more specifics on bus, train and local rental cars.
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| IF YOU WILL BE ARRIVING BY TRAIN |
Let us know and we will pick you up at 5:30pm at the WILDERNESS ACCESS CENTER (WAC) with our hostel shuttle. See our Hostel
Shuttle page for details on the free park shuttle that will take
you the short distance from train depot to the WAC. Go to Alaska Railroad website for more information on rates and schedules.
North from Anchorage, Wasilla or Talkeetna
We are located at Milepost 224.1 of the Parks Highway. You will
find us fourteen miles north of the small town of Cantwell. You
will eventually see a sign for Carlo Creek Lodge and Campground
on your left, and then a sign for the Perch Restaurant on your right.
You want to SLOW DOWN as soon as you see the signs as you are almost
at the Mountain Morning. You will see a small sign for Carlo Creek
and then cross over a small bridge. Our dirt drive is immediately
after the bridge on the left. Our office is
the first cabin along the dirt drive, easily seen from the highway
if you're looking for it. There is an A-frame cafe called McKinley
Creekside directly across the highway from us. We are 224 miles north of Anchorage, a 4 to 6 hour drive depending on traffic and road conditions..
South from Fairbanks
We are located at Milepost 224.1 of the Parks Highway. You will
find us 13 miles south of the National Park entrance. Travel through "Glitter Gulch," the commercial district just north of
the Park entrance, cross the Nenana River twice, and you will surely
come to a place called Carlo Creek. You will come to a straight-away
and see a set of blue road signs that denote services (pictoral
signs). Our little dirt drive is on the right side of the Parks
Highway, just past the blue services signs and just before the Carlo Creek bridge. On the left, directly
opposite the Mountain Morning Hostel, is an A-frame restaurant called
McKinley Creekside. If you cross the bridge and Carlo Creek, you
have gone too far. We are on the north edge of Carlo Creek. We are
about a two-and-a-half-hour drive (134 miles) south of Fairbanks.
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| Front office, visible from the highway |

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