The
Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers in Valdez, Old Valdez, Bayside RV Park and Valdez Glacier |
| The town of Valdez covers about 274 square miles. Population about 4,100. Industry - oil, commercial fishing, seafood processing, shipping, tourism, and post-secondary education. The Alaska pipeline ends in Valdez. Valdez gets more than 300 inches of snow annually. Nearby Thompson Pass records between 600 - 900 inches annually. |
| Valdez is the activity center for Prince William Sound. Its growth is due to trading, salmon canning, gold and copper mining. Valdez is home to five named glaciers - Columbia, Meares, Worthington, Shoup and Valdez Glaciers. The two RV Gypsies visited 4 of these 5 glaciers and photos are on this website. This is a town well-worth visiting and spending time in. And the local Radio Shack had a good computer technician. | |
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| Valdez is Mother Nature's year-round playground with spectacular tidewater glaciers and mountains unequaled in the state. Valdez enjoys a year round temperate climate, breathtaking mountain scenery and glacier viewing in Prince William Sound. The town has a museum, convention center, hardware store, pharmacy, Radio Shack (with a great employee named Jorge that fixes computers), a Subway Food store, and more. | |
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| Below: Bayside RV Park is located in Downtown Valdez, Alaska. It had wide crushed-stone pull-through sites, full-hook-ups, laundromat, restroom, hot un-metered showers, telephone and cable TV hook-ups, free WI-FI and easy pull-through dump stations, pets allowed, and car washing was allowed on site. WOW! | |
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| Below: Seven (7) glaciers
were seen from the motorhome of the two RV Gypsies at Bayside RV Park
on this date. |
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| Below: Bald
Eagles flew overhead at Bayside RV Park |
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Below: OLD VALDEZ |
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Below: VALDEZ GLACIER |
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Below: Lee Duquette playing with a chunk of ice in the water. |
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Below: HEIDEN CANYON |
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WATERFALLS at Keystone
Canyon |
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| Near Valdez, Richardson Highway winds along the turbulent Lowe River in Keystone Canyon. The sheer canyon walls contain countless waterfalls and interesting rock formations. Note: (Richardson Highway was Alaska's first highway and began as a pack trial in the late 1800's with branches to Eagle and Fairbanks. The 364 miles of this paved highway constitute one of the state's most scenic routes. Keystone Canyon was named by Captain William Ralph Abercrombie, presumably for Pennsylvania, the Keystone state. | |
Horsetail Falls |
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Below: BRIDALVEIL FALLS |
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Unfortunately, the two RV Gypsies did
not learn any statistics for these waterfalls.
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- the old Railroad Tunnel - and more..........
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