Personalized Alaska travel
Handpicked by locals.
Handpicked Alaska specializes in planning personalized self-drive trips throughout Alaska. We create custom itineraries, book your hotels, rental car, and activities, and provide everything you need to explore Alaska independently with confidence.
Every trip is planned around your interests, travel style, and budget. Every hotel, activity, restaurant, and scenic stop we recommend has been carefully selected based on our own firsthand experience, so you can spend less time researching and more time enjoying Alaska.
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Meet Elizabeth & Damian
Handpicked Alaska is a small, family-owned business based in Anchorage, Alaska. Every itinerary is personally planned by the two of us, with hotels, activities, and scenic stops carefully selected based on our own firsthand experience. When you contact us, you're working directly with us from your first email through the planning process and while you're traveling in Alaska.
What Makes Handpicked Alaska Different?
We plan every trip ourselves.
When you contact us, you're working directly with the two people creating your itinerary.
We recommend places we've experienced.
We don't rely on reviews alone. We recommend places we'd send our own friends and family.
We plan trips around you.
No templates or pre-packaged tours. Every itinerary is built around your interests, travel style, and budget.
We're here while you travel.
Questions on the road? Need a restaurant recommendation? We're only a phone call or text away.
Handpicked
adjective /ˌhæn(d)ˈpɪkt/
: chosen very carefully with a particular purpose in mind
Our name says it all. We carefully handpick every recommendation based on our own firsthand experience because we genuinely believe it's worth your time. Every itinerary is thoughtfully planned around your interests, travel style, and budget—because no two travelers are the same.
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Ready to plan your self-drive trip to Alaska?
Ready to start planning your Alaska trip?
Head over to our Design Your Trip page and answer a few quick questions. We'll use your answers to create a personalized itinerary that's thoughtfully planned for you.