2025 Expedition Preview

by Chris · January 20, 2025

As I head out on my 2025 Expedition, I thought it might be fun to share some of those plans with all of you. I’ve been planning my 2025 road trip for about 9 months now and it will be an epic journey taking me cross-country twice and to two of the furthest points in the United States. My road trip for 2025 begins with visits to four of the California state beaches in January before I start heading east through Arizona in February. After visiting some of the national parks in New Mexico, I will continue east on a route through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama taking me into Florida all the way to the southernmost point of Key West in late March. I’ll make my way up the east coast visiting the Carolinas, Virginia, and Delaware in April before I head to Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky in May. My route will have me at the 109th Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day, then I need to rapidly make my way across the Midwest and Great Plains towards the Montana-Canadian border by early June.

The highlight of my 2025 Expedition is going to be a trip to Alaska via the 1,390-mile-long Alaskan Highway. I plan to enter Alberta, Canada in early June where I’ll visit Banff and Jasper national parks before making my way northwest. “Mile 0” of the Alaskan Highway is in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and I’ll spend about a week on the highway traveling through the wilderness of British Columbia and Yukon Territory to arrive in Fairbanks, Alaska around the Fourth of July. During my visit in Fairbanks, I plan to visit the Artic Circle to the see the midnight sun and then make my way south to Denali National Park. After a stop in Anchorage, I’ll drive to the Kenai Peninsula to do some salmon fishing with the bears and visit the coastal communities of Homer and Seward. A short ferry ride will take me from the isolated town of Whittier to Valdez on Prince William Sound, and then I’ll drive to the communities of Haines and Skagway to begin August. Another ferry ride will take me from Skagway to Juneau where I plan to fly over to visit Glacier Bay National Park for a few days. A two-night ferry ride from Juneau to Ketchikan will put me in the heart of Alaska’s temperate rainforest around Labor Day. I plan to take a ferry over to Prince of Wales Island to camp and explore for a few days. Finally, I’ll take a three-day ferry trip from Ketchikan back to the lower forty-eight.

After about six weeks in Alaska, I’ll visit Vancouver Island in British Columbia before making my way south to visit the numerous national parks in the Pacific Northwest in late September. The remainder of my fall season is still up in the air a little bit, however it will likely include visits to some of my favorite California national parks, Lake Tahoe, and the eastside of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Please continue to follow my blog throughout the year to follow my epic journey from Key West to Fairbanks and everywhere in between!

2025 Expedition by the Numbers