Getting Here
Travel Between Your Home And King Salmon, Alaska
For your Alaska Fly Fishing Trip, book your flight from your home city to the town of King Salmon, Alaska. You should plan on arriving in King Salmon before 5 pm. Penn Air (800) 448-4226 has a flight departing Anchorage @ 3:30 pm, arriving in King Salmon 4:45 pm. The Lodge floatplanes will transport you to the lodge between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm. All flights to King Salmon originate in Anchorage, Alaska. Most of you will have two flight segments, the first from your home city to Anchorage, Alaska, the second from Anchorage, Alaska to King Salmon, Alaska. Your flight to King Salmon will require a plane change in Anchorage before continuing on to King Salmon. Depending upon where your home city is, you may or may not overnight in Anchorage, although most will.
On changeover day we will meet your arriving flight in the town of King Salmon. Our pilots and guides will be at the airport terminal waiting for you. If you arrive in King Salmon early, there are various restaurants and bars within walking distance – look for the Alaska Rainbow Lodge van outside the terminal, deposit your bags in the back, and relax! Don’t worry about getting left behind, we will find you. After greeting you at the King Salmon terminal we will then drive one mile to our floatplane base on the Naknek River. From there, we will then fly you to the lodge, a 30-minute flight in our lodge-owned float equipped aircraft.
Corporate Aircraft
If you arrive for your Alaska Fly Fishing Vacation or Retreat in Corporate or private aircraft, the King Salmon airport (PAKN) has a 7500 foot full ILS hard surface runway with published approaches and a FBO who can service you with gas or jet fuel. Hard surface parking is available. Flight crew lodging is available in King Salmon at the King Ko Inn (907/246-3377). We will meet all private aircraft if you will notify us and provide us with your tail number and flight plan. We prefer arrivals at mid-day.
Luggage Tags
Alaska Rainbow Lodge sends all confirmed guests a special baggage tag at least sixty days prior to your trip. These fluorescent tags assist us in locating your bags in King Salmon. In the unlikely event you lose one or all your bags, these tags have our phone number and name on them. All the local airlines know us and can quickly notify us when the bag is located.
Going Home
Book your flight from King Salmon to Anchorage between 8:00am and 12:00 noon. We will fly you back to King Salmon from our Bristol Bay area lodge anytime between 8:00am and 12:00 noon.
On your departure day we leave from the lodge at 8:00 am. Many people book the early flight out of King Salmon (approx. 9:00 am). If you opt for the first flight, keep in mind that weather delays are very possible. Travel time between Alaska Rainbow Lodge and King Salmon is approximately 30 minutes. Unscheduled flights between King Salmon and the lodge are available at an additional charge of $425.00.
