Alaska Backcountry Adventure Ride
We Explore Alaska with a Honda Pioneer 700 & Rincon

In order to get the full spectrum of what Alaska is about, we went on a series of tours and adventures to different parts of the state. One of those areas was Palmer, Alaska where we met up with Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours.

ATVriders.com headed to Palmer, Alaska the first week of October just in time for the peak fall colors. This beautiful SxS / ATV trail ride location is only an hour north of the big city of Anchorage, which makes it very accessible for those looking for a little offroad adventure during their trip to Alaska

Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours run multiple types of tours including full day, half day and customized tours, salmon fishing and bear watching tours, and rafting excursions in the summer as well as snowmobile tours in the winter. In 2000, Craig Saunders decided he wanted to spend more time in the great outdoors and decided what better way to do that than to open his own adventure tour business.

For our adventure ride, we went with Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours in Palmer, Alaska, and Craig Saunders & Louie (above right) were preparing to take out a large group on a trail ride shortly after our ride

“A lot of my friends advised against it saying that something I love so much could turn into something I hate, but we have been in business now for almost 15 years. To take people out there, put a smile on their faces and show them the beautiful back country of Alaska is a very rewarding experience,” said Saunders, who claims that in that time, they have put enough miles on their ATV’s to circle earth 7.6 times.

Craig Saunders and his ATV & SxS tour guides have put in enough off-road miles to circle the Earth 7.6 times, and they have had the best success with Honda, so they have a full fleet of Honda vehicles for the tours from the Rancher, Foreman, Rincon, and the new Honda Pioneer 4 700 SxS, so for our tour we took out the Honda Rincon & Pioneer 4 700

Besides offering day trips, Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours also offer sight-seeing trips, rafting and over night excursions where you have the option of camping out in a tent or at a remote cabin. “For our overnight adventures we provide everything you need, including tents, sleeping pads, sleeping bags and three square meals that offers some of the best in Alaska campfire cuisine,” stated Saunders.

Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours offers several different guided tours in addition to the ATV & SxS guided tour, which including sight-seeing trips, rafting and over night excursions where everything is provided including tents or cabins & food

While business has typically been best in the summer months, Saunders states that winter tours have been on the rise and are now as popular as summer trips. “We especially get a lot of business during the Iditarod races. We have three tour guides for our summer tours and now we have three for winter as well,” Saunders stated.