Denali National Park Tours:

Choose your own park tour! Most Princess Alaska land and sea vacations include an exciting tour through the park, plus Princess offers the flexibility to choose your preferred experience from three unique tour options. If your Alaska cruisetour does not include a Denali Park tour, you can reserve it separately through Princess.

Park tour options include: Denali Natural History Tour, Tundra Wilderness Tour and Kantishna Experience. Select the appropriate Denali National Park tour experience for you!

Denali Natural History Tour

Duration: Approximately 6 1/2 hours
Price: $99 per person

Tour Highlights:

• Fully narrated tour that focuses on the rich history of Denali National Park
  
• Travels to Primrose Ridge (Mile 17) for scenic and wildlife viewing opportunities
  
• Includes a screening of “Across Time and Tundra”, a film that depicts development of the park road and early visitor experiences
  
• Stop at Savage Cabin to visit a rustic, back-country shelter used by rangers for decades
  
• Alaskan Native Presentation
  
• Possible opportunity to see Mt. Mckinley (weather permitting)
  

Recommended for:

• Passengers who are interested in Denali’s history, culture and nature
  
• Passengers who have limited time in Denali and want to more thoroughly experience their lodge and/or land excursions
  
• Passengers who prefer to have more free time in Denali
  

Tundra Wilderness Tour

Duration: Approximately 9 hours
Price: $159 per person

Tour Highlights:

• Comprehensive, fully narrated tour that travels deep into Denali National Park (Mile 53)
  
• In-depth information about the history of the park with plentiful wildlife and photography opportunities
  
• Travels over Sable Pass to scenic Polychrome Overlook
  
• Stony Hill Overlook provides opportunities to see Mt. McKinley (weather permitting)
  
• Note: The Teklanika Tundra Wilderness Tour is seasonally offered in place of the Tundra Wilderness Tour when the park road is not fully accessible due to weather.
  

Recommended for:

• Passengers with 2-night stays at Denali
  
• Passengers who want a deep Denali Park experience
  
• Passengers who enjoy motorcoach travel
  

Kantishna Experience

Duration: Approximately 14 hours
Price: $205 per person

Tour Highlights:

• All day tour that travels to the end of the park road (Mile 91)
  
• This tour is guided by a National Park Service Interpretive Ranger
  
• Explore the old gold mining town of Kantishna and learn about its history
  
• Stop at the restored home of Fannie Quigley and learn about the early settlers
  
• Visit the Eielson Visitor Center and Wonder Lake
  
• Abundant opportunities for wildlife viewing
  
• Possible opportunities to see Mt. Mckinley (weather permitting)
  
• Limited space availability
  
• Note: This tour does not operate when the park road is not fully accessible due to weather.
  

Recommended for:

• Passengers with 2-night stays at Denali
  
• Passengers who want to travel to the end of the park road
  
• Passengers who enjoy motorcoach travel
  

Other Helpful Information

• To change the Denali Park tour on an existing Alaska cruisetour booking, please have your Travel Agent call Princess. The price difference will be applied to your booking. Changes must be made 14 days prior to departure.
  
• You may also choose to opt out of the tour altogether. The price will be credited to your booking.
  
• Don’t wait; availability is limited. Space is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Not all requests can be accommodated.
  
• A snack and hot beverage is provided on the Natural History Tour.
  
• Box lunches and beverages are provided on the Tundra Wilderness Tour and the Kantishna Experience.
  
• Wheelchair accessible buses are available, and all stops are wheelchair accessible.
  
• Children under 4 years and/or 40 pounds are required to be in a child safety device (car seat) to ride on buses. Passengers must bring their own child safety device.
  
• Tour buses are school buses and are not equipped with restrooms. Buses will stop approximately every 90 minutes for restroom breaks.
  
• Park road is not paved and travels through beautiful Alaskan wilderness – wildlife is not guaranteed.
  
• Privately owned vehicles are not permitted into the National Park.
  
• Suggested items to bring include warm clothes, rainwear, insect repellant, camera, binoculars, and personal medications as necessary.