Multi-day: 

Epic Trip #1:

1. Get up early and drive up the Parks Highway. 
2. Take a right at Cantwell onto the Denali Highway. Bring a spare tire or two. You’ll have to drive in about 30 miles to get past Native land and onto public land to camp. Take your time driving this road, which is mostly gravel, and bring a spare tire and know how to change it.  It’s beautiful! Camp at Clearwater Creek (about 60 miles in).
3. The next day, drive to the Tangle Lakes area and camp there for the night. 
4. The next day, drive to Delta Junction. The drive there is gorgeous. Get ice cream at the shop at the “Y” of the Richardson and Alaska Highways. Get a bison burger while you’re in town too! Take a right onto the Alaska Highway toward Tok. Go to Tok and head south on the Tok Cutoff Highway. Camp somewhere along the Tok Cutoff. 
5. The next day, drive home (or go to Valdez!). On your way home on the Glenn Highway, like Lion’s Head near Matanuska Glacier. 

Epic Trip #2: 

1. Buy tickets for you, your friends, and your vehicle for the ferry between Whittier and Valdez. 
2. Head south and take the tunnel to Whittier. 
   1. (Add an extra day by spending the night in Whittier and hiking the Blackstone Vista trail!) 
3. In Valdez, camp at the military campground. 
4. On day 2, explore the town of Valdez and the waterfalls in the canyon north of town. 
5. On day 3, drive north on the Richardson Highway. Stop in Thompson Pass for a day hike and check out the glaciers (but be careful!)
6. Keep driving until you see the turnoff for Chitina and McCarthy.  Drive to McCarthy. 
7. Camp in the private gravel lot at the end of the road near the footbridge.
8. Spend a day or two exploring McCarthy and Kennecott mine. You absolutely must hike out to the Root Glacier!
9. The next day, drive home (or camp near Caribou Creek). On your way home on the Glenn Highway, hike Lion’s Head near Matanuska Glacier. 

Most Epicest of Epic Roadtrips:

Combine Epic Trip 2 with Epic Trip 1. Start in Whittier; do Valdez and McCarthy; go north to Delta Junction after McCarthy; after Delta Junction, turn around the way you came and go back south to Paxson to drive the Denali Highway, then take the Parks Highway south back to Anchorage. Give yourself at least a week!