Talkeetna: Practicalities
Talkeetna is at the end of a fourteen-mile spur off the George Parks Highway, which can usually be hitched. Bus services avoid Talkeetna except for The Park Connection (daily from Anchorage; $41; tel 1-800/208-0200); Anchorage to Denali trains stop half a mile south of the center of Talkeetna once a day. Information is widely available from shops around town and from the Talkeetna Ranger Station , on B Street (summer daily 8am-6pm; tel 907/733-2231).For a town of just three hundred, Talkeetna teems with good accommodation , the cheapest being central Talkeetna Hostel International on I Street (tel 907/733-4678, ; bunks $23, rooms $50-75). Dating back to 1917, the central Talkeetna Roadhouse (tel 907/733-1351, ; $75-100), bolsters its old-style atmosphere with some great home cooking and rooms with shared bathrooms. Easily the fanciest hotel hereabouts is the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge (tel 733-9500 or 1-888/959-9590, ; $200-250), on the hill to the south of town. Campers can stay at the Talkeetna River Park ($10), at the western end of Main Street, but most stroll a hundred yards further west from the latter and (unofficially) pitch on the river flats.
Good places to eat include the bakery/diner at the Talkeetna Roadhouse , and the McKinley Deli at Main and C streets (tel 907/733-1234), which serves pizza. And make sure you stop for a drink in the wonderfully ancient Fairview Inn on Main Street.
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