Best of Alaska by Private Plane

Meet your driver-guide for a private half-day tour of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. Full of interesting sites, picturesque scenery, and history, Anchorage makes for a great sightseeing tour. Your tour will pass attractions like the Log Cabin Visitor Center, the Alaska Railroad Depot, and the Museum of Art & History. Visit Resolution Park and the Captain Cook Monument as well as Ship Creek Viewpoint, which overlooks Cook Inlet. Return transfer to your hotel included. Admissions (if desired) payable on spot.

Meet your private driver for a transfer to the Anchorage Lake Hood airport (the world's busiest seaplane airport), where you'll set off on a narrated 2-hour private flightseeing tour in a Cessna 206 float plane. You'll see Knik and Colony glaciers to the east OR Triumverate and Capps glaciers to the west, all dependent on your pilot's evaluation of the flight conditions. Sense the motion of the ice of the glaciers and see how it has shaped the land. Look for moose and other wildlife as you fly over pristine lakes and past snow capped mountains. Return transfer included.

Meet your driver for a private airport transfer.

Enjoy a private charter flight to your lodge in Alaska.

Located within the largest National Park in the United States, the Ultima Thule Lodge can only be accessed by small aircraft, as there are no roads within the park.

You'll board a small aircraft at a designated departure point, and be transfered to the lodge on an incredibly scenic flight. Duration will range up to 1.5 hours.

The Wrangell/St. Elias mountain ranges are a geological paradise – volcanos, glaciers, gold, copper – and the highest coastal mountain range on earth. Today you'll set out in a bush plane with a guide, and embark on a one of a kind experience.

“No human being has ever stood here,” says your guide.

You stand on the rocky peak of a mountain with no name. The sun is warm on your back. The glacier here is receding, and the stone beneath your feet has only been bare for a few days. Glacial runoff thunders down from the mountain in a massive waterfall. Vast clouds of vapor glitter in the sunlight. You watch as the glacier calves a huge, jagged shard of ice, and it drops down into the valley below.. crashing into the Chitina river. You’ll drink that tonight.

Behind you, the two-seater Piper Super Cub waits silently, its steel propellor glinting in the sun, its massive, rubbery bush-wheels perfectly suited for a landing at the top of the world.

Share in the unique lifestyle of the adventure-centric family of pilots, guides and world traveled outdoors people who run the lodge. Discover the incredible attention to detail and human comforts at their home in the heart of the Alaskan wilderness.

Every day is unique. Perhaps today you'll be flown over the pinnace of Mount St. Elias, the largest vertical rock face on Earth. You'll dust Elias' snowy peak, then drive down over the glacier fields, breeze over grassy plains and glide out to the Pacific Ocean. Land on the beach and eat a gourmet picnic lunch set along in the back of the plane. Sit on an iceberg in the sun and watch huge chunks of glacier ice crash into waves.

No itineraries you have to chose from ahead of time here. No set schedule of events. This is adventuring as it's meant to be, in its puerest form, adhering to the laws of nature while respectfully marveling at her grandeur. Ebrace the remote beauty and unique flexibility this wilderness escape offers.

Depart the Ultima Thule Lodge on another scenic flight by small aircraft. Keep your eye out for some of the area's wildlife along the way.

Enjoy a private charter flight to Anchorage.