Visit Seward, a first-class RV destination

In my book, The Alaska Highway: An Insider's Guide, I have a chapter where I list my favorite RV destinations in Alaska. Number one on the list is Seward, about 130 miles south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula.

Seward offers tremendous opportunities for viewing marine wildlife--whales, sea otters, sea lions (shown here), birds and more. Then there are the glaciers and unmatched fishing adventures either from the shore or on charter boats. In Seward, there's a little something, make that a lot of something, of everything people come to Alaska to see and do.

Seward is a very RV-friendly town, too. Most of the shoreline surrounding the town is a campground that stretches for almost a mile along the waterfront between the boat harbor and the Alaska Sea Life Center (also worth a visit). Except during a couple of special-events weekends, it's almost always possible to snag a waterfront site for your rig.