http://infoaboutalaska.com/communities/kennicott-copper-company/ Articles on the Towns, Sights, Rivers, Wildlife and Adventures Found in the Great Land of Alaska Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:33:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://infoaboutalaska.com/communities/kennicott-copper-company/comment-page-1/#comment-2780 Copper River: A Historic Lifeline for Alaskans | Information About Alaska (IAA) Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:35:53 +0000 http://infoaboutalaska.com/WordPress/?p=3#comment-2780 [...] with construction of the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad to the mining town of Kennecott from [...] [...] with construction of the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad to the mining town of Kennecott from [...]

]]> http://infoaboutalaska.com/communities/kennicott-copper-company/comment-page-1/#comment-2779 Dominique Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:12:21 +0000 http://infoaboutalaska.com/WordPress/?p=3#comment-2779 Kennecott is a great trip. We worked with an Anchorage travel agent to book us into the B&B inn at Kennecott and a car with a rental company that would allow us to drive on the McCarthy road from Chitna (the major car rental companies didin't want you driving gravel roads, which was pretty limiting when it came to driving in Alaska). This was in 2000, so all we remember really being open in Chitna was a place called the It'll Do Cafe (where we ate lunch), some sort of antique/gift store and a "gas station" where the pump was a big oil tank. The footbridge from the end of the road into the mining sites had only opened the previous year or so...they told us that prior to that, visitors had to take some sort of pulley-driven basket conveyance across the river. Because of the limited traffic out there, you saw a lot of old, old cars and trucks that had been driven over the ice during winter years ago and were amazingly still running...or left to rust out in the wilderness. The mining sites are great places to take photos. Between the red mining buildings and the old rusted cars... We ended up not taking the tour inside of the mine, but a tour climbing on the receding glacier. As usual, we just didn't have enough time to do everything we wanted to do. Kennecott is a great trip. We worked with an Anchorage travel agent to book us into the B&B inn at Kennecott and a car with a rental company that would allow us to drive on the McCarthy road from Chitna (the major car rental companies didin’t want you driving gravel roads, which was pretty limiting when it came to driving in Alaska).
This was in 2000, so all we remember really being open in Chitna was a place called the It’ll Do Cafe (where we ate lunch), some sort of antique/gift store and a “gas station” where the pump was a big oil tank.
The footbridge from the end of the road into the mining sites had only opened the previous year or so…they told us that prior to that, visitors had to take some sort of pulley-driven basket conveyance across the river. Because of the limited traffic out there, you saw a lot of old, old cars and trucks that had been driven over the ice during winter years ago and were amazingly still running…or left to rust out in the wilderness.
The mining sites are great places to take photos. Between the red mining buildings and the old rusted cars…
We ended up not taking the tour inside of the mine, but a tour climbing on the receding glacier. As usual, we just didn’t have enough time to do everything we wanted to do.

]]> http://infoaboutalaska.com/communities/kennicott-copper-company/comment-page-1/#comment-2543 Currant Ridge Cabins in McCarthy Alaska and Adjacent to Kennecott Mine National Historic Site | Information About Alaska (IAA) Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:27:26 +0000 http://infoaboutalaska.com/WordPress/?p=3#comment-2543 [...] trip to Wrangell St. Elias National Park and its Kennicott Mine National Historic Landmark is a highlight for both visitors and residents of Alaska. Wrangell St. Elias National Park is the [...] [...] trip to Wrangell St. Elias National Park and its Kennicott Mine National Historic Landmark is a highlight for both visitors and residents of Alaska. Wrangell St. Elias National Park is the [...]

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