We have not made this trip yet but it is on our bucket list. Fly Space A to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. The best bases to reach Elmendorf are Travis, Hickam, McChord and McGuire.

Rent a car and visit nearby National Parks.

Elmendorf, Aaska to Denali, Wrangell-St Elias, and Kenai Fjords.

  https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Elmendorf+AFB,+Anchorage,+AK/Wrangell-St.+Elias+National+Park+%26+Preserve,+Alaska/Kenai+Fjords+National+Park,+Alaska/Denali+National+Park+and+Preserve,+George+Parks+Highway,+Denali+National+Park+and+Preserve,+AK/@61.8131015,-151.5721757,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x56c895e596b4a2cd:0xaecac3abe99899fb!2m2!1d-149.8112528!2d61.2536352!1m5!1m1!1s0x56b3ac932a30f52b:0x1588e245d205c86a!2m2!1d-142.9856804!2d61.7104448!1m5!1m1!1s0x56c79c630608aa09:0x12143ced272edc64!2m2!1d-149.8163644!2d60.0437764!1m5!1m1!1s0x56cdf3ff88d01605:0xc6b53b15131936a5!2m2!1d-151.1926058!2d63.1148002!3e0

http://www.alaska.org/tours/driving-tours

 

http://www.alaska.org/alaska-insider-newsletter

 

Two other Nartional Parks are nearby but accessed by boat.

Glacier Bay National Park

Katmai National Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 http://www.travelblat.com/the-top-5-national-parks-in-alaska/.

 

Elmendorf, Alaska

 We ha e not made this trip yet but here is our plan. Fly Space A to Elmendorf, Alaska.Travis, Hickam, and McChord are among the best bases to fly to Elmendorf



 Rent a car and visit the three near by National Parjs

Elmendorf, Aaska to

Talkeetna Alaska

The gateway to Denali National Park

Few other places are blessed with such incredible geography as Talkeetna. Talkeetna offers breathtaking views of Denali and the Alaska Range and looks out over a broad valley where the Chulitna, Susitna and Talkeetna rivers meet. Described as charming and possessing an innate charisma, Talkeetna is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and boasts a highly creative citizenry, original saloons and roadhouses still in operation, imaginative shops and businesses in renovated trapper and miner cabins and the mystique of the mountain-climbing community.


http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/road-trips/national-parks-alaska/