Black Diamond Treasure Hunt Excursion with Backcountry Dining
- 3 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Adventure Awaits! Work together to solve riddles as your guide leads you through Alaska’s wild landscapes. Enjoy a scenic, interactive experience for all ages, complete with a delicious meal and adult beverages. Embark on a thrilling, guide-driven adventure through the wilds of Alaska! Ride in a six-passenger side-by-side with your guide at the wheel, leaving room for five guests to explore rugged backcountry trails and breathtaking mountain-view overlooks. The tour travels at a comfortable speed of 15–20 mph, adjusted to suit the group, providing an exciting yet safe ride through Alaska’s stunning wilderness . Please let us know when booking if you are driving yourself or if you need to be picked up at your hotel choice. The pick up time at your hotel is the listed booking time. If you are driving yourself to our location plase arrive 15 minutes later. We are located at 1.2 Mile Otto Lake Road, turn onto Otto Lake Raod at Mile 247 off the George Parks Highway.
Inclusions
What's included
- Professional guide
- Round-trip transport from Healy lodgings (if option selected)
- Snacks
- Meals as per itinerary (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)
What's not
- Gratuities
- Alcoholic Beverages
Itinerary
Enjoy complimentary transport from your Healy hotel to Black Diamond Resort Co, where you’ll embark on a family-friendly backcountry treasure hunt. After a short safety briefing, you'll hop aboard your own Polaris Ranger, outfitted with seat belts, a windshield and cover. It’s similar to a small open-air Jeep but sports the exciting flair of an ATV. Then, head out into the wilds of Alaska with your professional guide. Navigate the back country trails, searching for hidden secrets, granite rocks, and additional clues that bring you closer and closer to finding your treasure: a rustic pavilion in the woods where a camp-style meal awaits. Traverse old mining paths that spill out onto the Dry Creek River Bed, stop on a whim to take in the surrounding scenery, or walk along the tundra and travel up the side of Black Diamond Peak for spectacular views of the Healy Valley — all the while working together to strategize and plan your next moves.
Your guide also fills you in on local history, culture, flora, and fauna throughout. Soon, it’s time to reap the benefits of your treasure hunt: a delicious and hearty meal. Morning tours include a lumberjack breakfast with fresh-baked biscuits and gravy, reindeer sausage, flapjacks and more, while afternoon and evening tours feature mouthwatering ribs, steak, chicken and even fresh-caught Alaska salmon. Juice, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and adult beverages are also available. Your tour concludes with hotel drop-off.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
4.9
- 5206
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Ratings come from 217 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5Best of the Best!
This excursion was fantastic! Our guide, John, is a skilled driver with a lot of local knowledge. He showed us incomparable views. His eagle eyes pointed out a porcupine, the first either Bob or I had seen in the wild. He also found me a “wishing stone” in Dry Creek while we admired the huge moraine that is still shifting. We learned a lot and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Oh! Breakfast was delicious and plentiful. Highly recommend!!
5ATV ride and treasure hunting in the rain!
What a great experience! Ross was our driver and guide. He showed us a wild time. It rained on us the whole time, but it did not put a damper on the fun. I think Ross hit every puddle out there, and it was a blast! He was a great driver, we had great food, and we got to see a mama moose and her baby. And we found treasure! 😄 Loved every minute of it!
4Amazing sights and fantastic lunch
We enjoyed our ATV tour ‘treasure hunt’ with Caleb! The paths are rough so be prepared, but not so much to make it uncomfortable. The only wildlife we saw was 1 grouse, but with ATV’s running around that is to be expected. Lunch was amazing! Served family style and lots of variety and very tasty options!! The kitchen staff was very friendly and we enjoyed chatting with them also. Caleb showed us many sights, was a safe and entertaining guide, found the ‘treasure chest’ and we wish him the best wherever the wind blows for his next chapter.
5Fantastic tour
David was a terrific guide/driver. The ride was fun and he shared knowledge of the area and landscape. We had the best time with him. Highly recommend this tour
4Side by side ride
Caleb did a fantastic job guiding our side by side ride. We all had a great time.
5ATV Treasure Hunt
Gunther was a great ATV tour guide. We saw some amazing sites. He was very knowledgeable of the area and he really enjoys what he does. We felt save and had lots of fun bumping along through the mountainside and the tundra landscape.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Drive to mile 247 off the george parks highway, turn onto Otto Lake Road (you will see some blue and gold train cars) drive past the Denali Park hotel on Otto Lake Road and park anywhere in our parking lot and come into Black Diamond Front Desk to check in.
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 15 travellers
- Operated by
- Black Diamond Resort Co
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Infant seats are available; please request when booking
- No experience necessary.
- Drinking age is 21 and older
- Vegetarian food option is available; please request when booking
- The tour is wheelchair accessible, though please let us know beforehand so we can plan accordingly
- Operates rain or shine; please dress for the weather
How it compares in Denali National Park
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 46 experiences we list in Denali National Park.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 11 of 46.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Denali National Park
Denali National Park is six million acres of tundra, spruce forest and glaciers in interior Alaska, centred on the highest mountain in North America.
Denali National Park and Preserve covers about six million acres of interior Alaska, a landscape of braided rivers, tundra, spruce forest and glaciers spread across the Alaska Range. The mountain itself, 6,190 metres high, is the highest in North America. It often hides in cloud, so a clear view of the summit is a matter of luck.
Top-ranked sights in Denali National Park: Denali Visitor Center.
