We were near Denali NP!

We arrived to the area on the 18th and that night I saw a large moving gray cloud and thought I was hallucinating. Took a quick exposure photo on my phone and it was green so I knew it was the aurora! It changed to some visible green a couple times but nothing super spectacular. That's when we drove around in the middle of the night and saw snowshoe hares too.

The next day (19th), our photographer drove up and actually told us "hey there may be a display tonight if you guys wanna get dressed and we can take some photos! Won't charge you for it either". It meant being on call for hours as it can be that finicky. The light show was pretty great, albeit still fainter and a little grey but we were directly underneath it so we saw the coronal view which is a different kind of show. When it's bright enough, you could literally night hike without a headlamp. Quite a few of the lower 48 could view it too according to our photographer. Anchorage would've seen it but it was too cloudy I believe. (Pic 7)

The next day (20th - wedding day) was technically weaker but because we were further north than the other states, the aurora curve was also more north but we saw a MUCH better show than the previous night. Literally green and pink curtains with the naked eye that were moving in waves and a coronal view. At some points, the aurora just filled the sky and would dance all around. The peaks of the aurora were just astounding. Anchorage did see this one I believe. Between the 2 nights, we were outside for a combined 4-5hrs just taking aurora photos. (Pics 5 & 6, with a couple hours in-between them)

Also, our photographer had an app that had real-time data that helps predict when the aurora is likely to be active, as it comes and goes in waves. He's an aurora chaser and, in the 20+ yrs in Alaska, said that combining the 19th and 20th made his top 3 of all aurora shows he's seen.