Contact Information
P.O. Box 9
Denali Park, AK 99755
907-683-2294
Denali is truly a park on an Alaskan scale: six million acres-a plot of magnificent land larger than the state of Massachusetts-interrupted by just one road. And at that, the byway is gravel and all but closed to private vehicles. In other words, Denali sees less traffic than many suburban streets.Across the park's largely treeless expanse, the views are of a scale unknown in the Lower 48. Rivers rush wide and milky white with rock pulverized by glaciers. Flower-studded tundra spills away in all directions for tens of miles. Marquee wildlife like caribou, Dall sheep, moose, and grizzly bears roam freely. And, if the weather cooperates, Mount McKinley swallows the horizon. At 20,320 feet, McKinley is North America's highest mountain and the crown of the 600-mile-long Alaska Range. The indigenous Athabascan people dubbed the massif Denali, or the Great One, and it more than lives up to the name. From base to summit, the mountain's vertical relief is greater than that of Mount Everest. On those rare occasions when its shroud of clouds rolls back, McKinley's grandeur will steal your breath away.
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