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Summary: You can a lot of things online
Review: This book is convenient. But you can also find many things online for free if you are willing to do some research.
Rating: 
Summary: Commercially driven & not useful
Review: This book offers the reader more information
than one could possibly hope for. Maps of all
the major cities and things to do make this
a must have if planning a trip to Alaska.
You'll find phone numbers, most hotels and
resturants, gas stations, road houses. You
name it. If you're headed to Alaska, you need this
book. Just don't leave it home!
Rating: 
Summary: Don't do Alaska and Canada without it.
Review: We had a little problem using the book at the beginning of our 11,000 mile trip, takes a little getting used to the format but once we did it was as one review said: It shows every trashcan, rock, flower in Alaska. I especially liked driving by a burned out area of the forest and the details in the book that told about the fire how far it burned, when. We traveled in a motor home and it was a godsend in finding camping areas. Our bible Trailer Life Campground Guide in the lower US is good in the lower US but fell very short on information on campgrounds in Alaska and Yukon etc. The biggest problem we had with it was so many of the mileposts have disappeared or been misplaces along the roads so we had to do so much catchup once we pinpointed where we actually were. But it is very necessary.
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Summary: An absolute necessity for driving in Alaska
Review: We recently returned from 18 days in Alaska. We drove on the Parks Highway, the Glenn Highway, the Richardson Highway, the Steese Highway, the Elliot Highway, the Fishook-Willow Road, the Alaska Highway, the South Klondike Highway, and the entire road system around Juneau and Douglas Island. The Milepost covered all of the roads and we always knew where the next turnout was. The local advertising is indispensable (Eat at Fast Eddy's in Tok.)
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Summary: Does Not Live Up to Reputation
Review: While not TERRIBLE, this book is fairly useless. Certainly it is not worth its asking price. I was convinced to buy it by a friend who had used it to get around Alaska 25 years ago. But after a month of traveling around the state, I ended up feeling ripped off. In my travels around Alaska, I found numerous free vacation planners or free travel guides as good or better than this turkey. The book has numerous problems. In most cases, historical or cultural information is missing completely, or described in the most perfunctory way. And even when there's actually something of interest, thousands of disguised advertisements for paying businesses clutter the text, making it hard to find. The book is more or less a business directory, and its community descriptions seem taken straight from census data. 25 years ago, it MAY have a good resource (though I'm not even convinced of that.) But it seems to have become obsolete. If you really want the information it's peddling, wait till you get to Alaska to pick up a free guide, or hit the internet.
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