Alaska 2023

[vetbmwrider]

I wonder what the price is now for a bike and rider (no room) for Valdez to Prince Rupert.
I tried the website and could not get a price.

A person has to sail from Whitter to Prince Rupert, the cost was around $2000 the last time I looked.

[akbeemer]

A person has to sail from Whitter to Prince Rupert, the cost was around $2000 the last time I looked.

It does mot show any ferries to PR from Whittier.

[Lee]

That means there are no sailings between the ports you picked. I tried to find a sailing to Prince Rupert from Whittier, Skagway and Valdez and couldn’t one. A friend sailed from Alaska to PR last summer to attend the Great Falls rally, but I can’t find any sailing to PR this upcoming summer.

I tried several options with no luck but wondered if I was not picking the correct port options.

[Lee]

A person has to sail from Whitter to Prince Rupert, the cost was around $2000 the last time I looked.

Wow, I remember we thought it was expensive back in 1988 for two bikes.
$4,000 would be too much for this cheap BMW riding couple

[vetbmwrider]

Earlier this year I was looking at the Blue canoes, as way to get around the Covid restrictions at the border. I was sticker shocked when I priced out the trip from Bellingham WA to Whitter AK round trip with a cabin for my daughter and myself and 2 bikes. For the price that AK ferry system was charging discouraged that idea of going to AK this year by ferry. If a person has never traveled the inland passage in AK you are missing some of the most beautiful site's AK has to offer. In the early 80 I spend some time, with the AK National Guard on a Landing craft for a major field problem traveling some of those waterways.

[akbeemer]

I believe one could fly to Alaska and fly the bike as well for less than the ferry. But the ride thru Canada is worth the time.

[Lee]

I believe one could fly to Alaska and fly the bike as well for less than the ferry. But the ride thru Canada is worth the time.

I feel the same way. A friend flew up to Alaska and rented a bike there.
He missed a lot of nice country by not riding through Canada.

[BBrowning]

I saw just about every kind of bike come up the ALCAN and on to Deadhorse. A loGoldwing pulling a trailer (he got a speeding ticket for 70 in a 35 zone on the haul road), a Vespa with two grandmas in their 70s that went up to Deadhorse and back without incident, Harleys, crotch rockets and a Japanese fellow who pulled a hand cart up there in December. A couple rode from Key West to Deadhorse in February. She was on a F800GS; he was on a Yamaha R1. All my riding was on dirt was on ia R100GSPD and Annie was on a F650GS thumper.

Your bike is more than enough.

It certainly is. I rode my ST1300 to the Arctic Circle north of Fairbanks. While getting fuel at Yukon River crossing, feeling kinda smug, in pulls a fully loaded Road king, completely covered in mud on his was back from Deadhorse. Never say never. I say, Plan your trip but don't over think it. Be prepared for the inevitable delays. More than any thing just plan to have a good time.