5. Alpenglow Luxury Camping (Glacier View, Alaska)
Here’s one for the bucket list: camping on a remote Alaskan glacier after swooping in by helicopter. Alaska’s biggest and most accessible glacier, Matanuska, serves as home base for this overnight on the ice. And what a base Alpenglow is. Settle into one of your tent’s two deck chairs, a glacier cocktail in hand, to swoon over stunning views of the glacier. There’s no electricity and you’ll have to share a composting toilet, but just think of the bragging rights!
For a longer stay, choose from a two-person, 10-foot-by-12-foot Forest Tent or a three-person, 12-foot-by-14-foot Mountain Tent back at the main camp. Featuring Alaskan decor, each is perched on a covered cedar deck with Adirondack or rocking chairs for taking in the spectacular vistas. Again, this is nature in the raw, with shared bath facilities and no heat or electricity (charge your electronics in the common area); warm up under your down comforter, in a communal cedar hot tub or around the firepit.
How to get there: Fly into Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Alpenglow.
Cost: Forest Tents start at $159 per night and Mountain Tents at $139, including breakfast. The Glacier Overnight Adventure starts at $1,100 for two in a basic mountaineering tent (the Deluxe Tent costs $200 extra), including the helicopter flight, breakfast and dinner, and a guided one-hour glacier hike. Alpenglow’s summer season ends in early September.
Contact: 330-314-3633
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