President Trump has given the Interior Department 30 days to rename the highest point in North American Mount McKinley, although he's not ordering that Denali National Park be renamed.
The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits,
Permitting the Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve; giving the state of Alaska control over fish and wildlife, including within National Park System units; and discarding the National Park Service's practice of managing lands "eligible" for wilderness as official wilderness are among the requests Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.
Denali Mountain is taller than Mount Everest. Truth! In addition to being the tallest mountain in North America, when measured from base to summit, Denali is actually a mile taller than Everest, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
There are six campgrounds located within Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Each campground has its own amazing landscape views. The Savage River Campground offers dramatic views just a short walk away from the campsites. To read more about Denali's campgrounds, click here.
Alaska is a big state (twice the size of Texas) with 19 National Park System units, eight of which are national parks. So how about a quiz focused on these eight parks? How many of you have traveled to any or all of them, and just how much do you really know? Test your knowledge with these 10 quiz questions. You might learn something from the questions as well as the trivia.
There aren’t enough superlatives to describe Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, a landscape covering over 6 million acres (2.4 million hectares), through which runs a single dirt and gravel road. It takes a bit of planning to get to this park, but if Denali is on your bucket list, that planning is worth the time and effort.
Mechanical problems forced a flightseeing plane with nine aboard to make a forced landing inside Denali National Park and Preserve, with the aircraft coming down near the Tokositna Glacier. No injuries were reported in the incident