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Bicycle Tour Nome, Historic Gold Rush Town, Finish of Iditarod
offered by supplier M14907 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 10
- 12
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 6
people
Destination(s):
Alaska
Specialty Categories:
Bicycle Touring
Ecotourism
Season: July - August
Airfare Included: Yes
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 4900 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 5200 US Dollar (USD)
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The Seward Peninsula is one of Alaska's least known treasures. Nome is one of the few places off the main highway system you can fly to and find 300 miles of gravel road. The once bustling gold rush town with over 10,000 has about 3000 inhabitants today. This tour is van supported. Nome is the finish of the famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race and our human powered race. In the summertime it is a different place and full of wildlife and wildflowers, birds, reindeer, musk ox, bears, wolves, moose. We will ride sections of the Nome-Teller Highway (Teller Road/72 miles).
Heading northwest from town, the route crosses through rolling tundra and grasslands and passes through the western end of the Kigluaik Mountains, where we will find some incredible hiking and scenery.The road ends at the native village of Teller (population 274, 87 percent Eskimo), once a gold-boom town of 5,000 but now oriented toward commercial fishing and subsistence wildlife harvesting. A herd of more than 1,000 reindeer grazes in the area; some of the herd is harvested by the residents.
About halfway from Nome to Teller, Wooley Lagoon Road cuts a short way south to the beach, homes, fish camps, and wetlands of Cape Wooley. Nome-Taylor Highway (Kougarok Road/89 miles) provides access to the splendid Kigluaik Mountains—an under-appreciated feature of the peninsula. A campground is located at Salmon Lake (Mile 38), not far from the pass through the range. About 65 miles out from Nome, a road branches to the west for about 8 miles to Pilgrim Hot Springs.
Nome-Council Highway (Council Road/73 miles) heads east along coastal flats and bars, and then continues inland at Dickson and on to Council, a traditional seasonal camp for the Fish River Eskimos.
We ’ll come to the ghost town of Solomon where many remaining structures hint at the town’s thriving gold-rush past. Just beyond Solomon, to the right of the road, you can’t miss the three wonderfully rusted, turn-of-the-century locomotives from the long-defunct Council City and Solomon Railroad. During the gold rush, Council was home to as many as 15,000 people Today there are a number of vacation homes and only about eight permanent residents.
The end of our trip we will spend at a cozy B&B before flying back to Anchorage. We will fly on a scheduled Alaska Airlines flight to Nome. After we arrive we will explore the Iditarod finish point our first day. The night will be spent in a cozy B&B.
The next ten days we will explore historic sites, hot springs, hike in the Kigluaik Mountains and have the opportunity to watch shorebirds, musk ox, moose, reindeer, see the "train to nowhere", experience Alaska native culture and lifestyle and more along three different gravel roads that lead in three different directions from Nome. Nights will be spent out in a tent with gourmet meals prepared by your guides.Enjoy this unique new arctic bike adventure with us.
Notes:
Airfare is included in the tour price.
Included:
- Guides
- Gear
- Bikes
- Meals
- Airfare RT from Anchorage to Nome
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