![]() ![]() We got off the shuttle in McCarthy and had lunch is a little place called the Potato. The shuttle let us off on one side of the rive and we walked across a bridge and caught another shuttle to McCarthy and Kennicott. This time we chose plane – small planes….over BIG mountains. We travelled to McCarthy and Kennicott on the Kennecott Shuttle (see separate review) to tour the Kennecott copper mine. We did the shuttle van last time – 60 miles of the worst road ever. area that was later to become the Nicolai Prospect and the Mother Lode Mine. There are 2 ways to get there – by car or plane. Accomodations ranging from private cabins, historic hotels, and a lodge overlooking a glacier. Adventure tours like rafting, guided hikes, and flightseeing. America’s largest national park, Wrangell St. One of the most scenic drives in Alaska, coming from Anchorage. It now has a beautiful lodge with phenomenal food and most of the buildings have been preserved and open to the public. Massive old mining buildings that look out over a glacier-carved valley. ![]() So everything was left where it was – mining equipment, clothes, medical records, even dishes on the tables! And then it was deserted for many years until someone decided to resurrect it as a tourist attraction and it became a National Monument. It was a copper mining town at the beginning of the 1900’s and when the copper was depleted the workers were given 2 hours notice to gather their belongings and get on the last train out of town. McCarthy Tourism: Tripadvisor has 2,788 reviews of McCarthy Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best McCarthy resource. ![]() When the Kennecott Copper Corporation abruptly. Avalanches plagued the mine camp and tramway. You can also take a half day and explore the old abandoned Kennecott Mill. Originally it had a tramway to a wagon road in the McCarthy Creek Valley. It is located north of the Bonanza Mine and on the opposite side of the ridge. The mine tour is really interesting to learn how hard it was to extract the copper from the rock. We walked the town prior to our mine Tour. Using the Kennicott Shuttle you get a free bus ride the 5 mile past McCarthy up to Kennicott. Kennicott Glacier Lodge is a very special place in the middle of the Wrangell-St Elias National Park (the largest NP – the size of Switzerland!). God brought the Pilgrim family to Alaska and delivered Papa Pilgrim, Mother Country Rose and their 15 children last year to a mining claim in the remote heart of the Wrangell Mountains. The Mother Lode Mine property was originally owned by the Mother Lode Coalition Mines Company. At end of road you walk across a long walk bridge across river. ![]()
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