Funding has been dedicated by the Interior Department to quickly move forward with repairing a section of the Denali Park Road that was lost to the Pretty Rocks landslide in the park.
Forgive drought-stressed parks for looking enviously at Denali National Park, which saw a record-setting 74.5 inches of snow fall during December, including nearly 55 inches from December 23 to December 29.
Retreat of the tidewater rivers of ice at Glacier Bay National and Preserve is a clear and easily viewed sign of climate change. Not as visually apparent is what is transpiring beneath the shimmering surface bay waters in this 3.3-million-acre swath of mountain and marine wilderness.
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.