Rising gas prices don't put the brakes on Alaska RV travel!

The welcome mat is out at RV parks along Interior highways as a steady stream of rigs, from sleek, top of the line, year-round motor homes to simple pop-up campers, head north in spite of rising fuel prices.
On Saturday afternoon, slightly more than one-third of River’s Edge RV Park’s 190 sites (including tent sites) were taken up by vacationers. “It’s slightly less than last year, but it’s not significant,” manager Andrea Robb said.
“Everyone talks about the price of gas,” she said. “No one is happy about the price of gas here or anywhere.”
Two couples traveling together from Bremerton, Wash., Ken and Diane Pahrmann, and Dan and Karen Tell, started planning their Alaska trip last year. “We threw out a $4-a-gallon figure at the time, and we budgeted for it,” said Ken Pahrmann, paging through their trip logbook at a picnic table next to their rig at River’s Edge.
When the foursome left Washington state May 18, they filled up the gas tank for $3.92 a gallon. By the time they reached Fairbanks three days ago, they were paying $4.25 per gallon. During their Canadian excursions, the couples paid a low of $1.26 per liter near Banff to a high of $1.55 per liter at the Alaska/Canadian border.
“It’s 3.78 liters to a gallon,” Pahrmann said, adding with a grin. “But we haven’t worked it out (to a gallon) yet.”
At Chena Marina RV Park and Resort, located off Chena Pump Road on a mile-long bush plane float pond, business is noticeably down — 20 percent less from this time last year, general manager Bill Wileman said.
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