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.
Some 3,000 feet (914 m) below Mount Katmai and encroaching into the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes are the Knife Creek Glaciers, covered with as much as 6 feet (2 meters) of ash and pumice. Hikers can walk right up to the foot of, and even onto the glaciers, if they wish (with caution).
There’s more to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska than just the bears and salmon this park protects and preserves. There’s active volcanics of Novarupta and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, the sport fishing, the 9,000 years of human history, and the sheer wildness of the landscape and location.
Crews at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on August 1 will begin removing a 200-foot-long gravel road near Lake Brooks that was improperly constructed by the park in 2014.
Katmai National Park and Preserve is celebrating a winning design by a 13-year-old student from Newhalen, Alaska, that is featured on the Brooks Camp bear pins this summer.
The National Park Service has adopted a new regulation pertaining to bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska, a rule that bans the practice for sport hunting but allows it for subsistence hunts focused on putting food on the table.