A Utah man created a fictitious story of climbers in a medical emergency and needing a helicopter rescue from high atop Denali so he could get airlifted off North America's tallest mountain.
Yellowstone National Park in 2020 embarked on what Superintendent Cam Sholly calls "the largest housing improvement project in the National Park Service since Mission 66" for park employees, but not all parks are so fortunate.
"A lynx working its way across a braided river. Many of Denali's rivers are made up of numerous channels, with gravel bars between various each of these braids."
For 20 years, the staff at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska has been considering the area between the Nenana River and George Parks Highway for trails and other "recreational infrastructure." Now the park wants to hear your thoughts on that matter.
How many of you have your own Instagram account, or follow national park Instagram accounts? You can learn all sorts of interesting things. As a matter of fact, this National Parks Quiz and Trivia #39 was created using facts learned from other park units’ Instagram accounts.
Engineers for the National Park Service and Federal Highways Administration believe it will take a bridge across the Pretty Rocks slide area to keep the full length of the Denali Park Road open in Denali National Park and Preserve.
"Wonder Lake is an iconic part of Denali. Views of the Alaska Range, and Denali in particular, are fantastic when skies are clear. The area can be cloudy, and mosquitoes can be a major nuisance most of the summer, but the beautiful landscape still drawns many visitors each year. This region is much wetter than other parts of the park through which the road passes, providing opportunities for seeing waterfowl."
As more and more people heading into the National Park System to escape being cooped up, rangers are finding themselves responding to more and more search-and-rescue calls.
Denali National Park and Preserve is hosting its annual “Need for Seed” volunteer event on Sunday, August 8, at 9 a.m. local time to collect and dry seeds for future revegetation projects and learn about native plants in the park.