Here Comes The Sun, Denali Style
Sunrises soften the ruggedness of Denali National Park's Teklankia River.
Emily Mesner, NPS
- By NPT Staff - April 16th, 2018 6:33pm
Denali National Park and Preserve
Is There Alaskan Gold At The End Of The Denali Rainbow?
Gold can be found in many places in Alaska, including the sunsets at Denali National Park and Preserve.
National Park Service
- By NPT Staff - April 4th, 2018 7:03pm
Hunting Decimating Wolf Populations At Denali National Park
Wolf hunters, some possibly using AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles, have so decimated wolf populations outside Denali National Park in Alaska that the state has shut down hunting and trapping in areas adjacent to the park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 3rd, 2018 11:05am
Birds And Climate Change: Study Predicts Upheaval In National Park Bird Species
They were not supposed to be there, but they were: More than 100 brown-hooded, white-breasted seabirds, along with four nests, at chilly Channel Islands National Park off California's coast. This was not balmy Baja California, which normally is the northern-most range for tropics-loving Brown boobies, but rather a windswept chain of islands with average high temperatures in the mid-60s and water temperatures in the 50s.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
A Day In The Park: Denali National Park And Preserve
Six million wild acres, a mountain that tests the world's best mountaineers, and a landscape that can reach deep into your heart with its character are phrases that help define Denali National Park and Preserve, but it can take a lifetime to truly understand and appreciate this place.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 11th, 2025 7:29am
Ohio Congressmen Want "Mount Denali" Changed Back To "Mount McKinley"
Some Ohio politicians, indignant that President Obama would rename Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve to Mount Denali, want President Trump to change it back. Never mind that President William McKinley never set foot in Alaska and that Alaskans were all for the name change.
- By NPT Staff - February 1st, 2018 1:15am
With Climbing Season Underway On Denali, Rescues Are Mounting
With climbing season ramping up on Denali in Denali National Park and Preserve, rangers are being pressed into action to help climbers who either have an accident or come down with illness on the mountain that rises 20,310 feet into the sky.
- By NPT Staff - June 6th, 2017 11:46am
Application Period For Denali Road Lottery Kicks Off May 1
The application period for the 2017 road lottery program at Denali National Park and Preserve will open May 1. The road lottery takes place in September and allows up to 400 cars per day to be on the western portion of the park road, which is usually closed to most private vehicles.
- By NPT Staff - April 23rd, 2017 3:00am
This Year’s Winterfest Doubles As 100th Birthday Party For Denali National Park
Every February, the community comes to Denali National Park and Preserve to celebrate all things winter at the aptly named Winterfest, but this year’s festivities will also serve as the 100th birthday party for the Alaska park on February 25 and 26.
- By NPT Staff - February 20th, 2017 7:35am
National Park Service Reaches Out To Workforce To Measure Harassment
A long-promised study of workplace harassment has gotten under way across the National Park System with an optional survey asking employees "to assess the prevalence of sexual harassment and other forms of harassment and retaliation in our workforce..."
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 11th, 2017 3:55pm
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