Park Lands Articles (Category)

Wrangell St. Elias National Park is known as “The Mountain Kingdom” and is the largest park in the U.S. national park system. This wilderness area has North America’s largest number of glaciers and the most mountain peaks over 16,000 feet including the towering Mt. St. Elias at 18,008 feet - the second highest peak in the USA, after Denali - Mt. McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park.

Gates of the Arctic is one of the last truly wild places on earth. Here you can take a journey of adventure, discovery and solitude through vast valleys and gaunt mountains of rugged beauty and experience nature on it own terms. Visitors to the park must have the knowledge and skills to be truly self sufficient in the remote location and demanding climate of the Brooks Range. Those who come will find that opportunities for recreation and for natural quiet, solitude and wilderness enjoyment abound.

Misty Fiords National Monument is located at the southern end of the Tongass National Forest and is best accessed about 35 km east of Ketchikan. It encompasses about 1 million hectares, making it the largest wilderness in Alaska’s national forests and the second largest in the nation. The protected lands are situated on Revillagegido Island and several nearby islands.
Misty Fjords has many long, deep fiords with sea cliffs rising for hundreds of meters. The islands are covered with thick forests that grow on nearly vertical slopes from sea level to …

Visitors to Skagway can get a taste of what it was like to live in the famous gold rush days of Alaska . There is a variety of gold rush themed entertainment in Skagway , theater shows, and plenty of characters dressed in gold rush costumes available for photographing.
Commemorating the Gold Rush of 1897-98, this 5,000 hectare park encompasses a six-block historical district in the town of Skagway , the famous Chilkoot and White Pass Trails, and the nearby ghost town of Dyea.
The glacially-carved valleys, stream channels, snow pack, mountains, …

Katmai National Park and Preserve encompasses almost 2 million hectares of pristine wilderness on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island in Southwestern Alaska. The park is home to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, the result of a volcanic eruption in 1912 which buried more than 40-square-miles of wilderness under as much as 700 feet of ash. Fourteen active volcanoes lie within the park today. The town of King Salmon lies to the west of the Park and is the local gateway.
Bear Viewing
The Katmai National Park is home to …

Glacier Bay National Park is unique and beautiful park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that welcomes about 350,000 visitors each year as one of the most popular destinations in Alaska. The Glacier Bay area has 16 glaciers including 12 tidewater glaciers flowing into the sea, with 4 of the tidewater glaciers actively calving icebergs. Glacier Bay is located in the northern tip of Alaska’s Inside Passage, about 77 km west of Juneau by air.

The park has snow-capped mountain ranges rising to over 15,000 feet, coastal beaches with protected coves, deep fjords, tidewater glaciers, forests and rivers. As marine waters make up nearly one-fifth of the park, Glacier Bay is rich with marine life, including the endangered humpback whale, threatened Stellar sea lion, harbor seals, sea otters and porpoises. The land areas are home to a variety of wildlife and birds.

Kenai Fjords is a majestic land of deep glacier-carved fjords bounded by forested mountains and sharp cliffs. This rugged coastline has many beautiful tidewater glaciers and abundant marine wildlife. Huge house-sized icebergs often crash from the tidewater glaciers into the sea.
Kenai Fjords National Park is comprised of 1,760 square miles (2,833 square kilometers) of protected land on the southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula. Snow and ice cover 60 percent of the park. The Harding Icefield is at the heart of the park, and about 40 glaciers flow from this great icefield. …

Denali National Park is considered a “must see” for most visitors to Alaska.

Denali is “The Great One” in the language of the Alaska Native people. Mount McKinley is North America’s largest mountain with an elevation of 6,194m (30,320 feet). This majestic mountain is the tallest peak in the great Alaska Range of mountains that extends 650km across Alaska.

Denali National Park and Preserve is one of the largest national parks in the United States, with over 24,585 square kilometers of protected lands - larger than the state of Massachusetts. There are over 40 glaciers in the area.

The Mendenhall Glacier is one of the world’s most scenic and accessible glaciers. Mendenhall Glacier is a popular destination for visitors, located only 19 km from Juneau and accessible by road. The glacier flows out of the Juneau Icefield for about 19 km into the Mendenhall Lake.
The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center is part of the Tongass National Forest, and is located just 19 km from Juneau–easily accessible by bus or car.
Also in the area is the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge, where 17 freshwater streams flow from the mountains into …