Alaska's Amazing National Parks

Of all of Alaska's parks, Denali (previously known as Mount McKinley National Park) offers the widest range of experiences—from simple nature walks and guided bus tours deep into the park to backpacking trips across the tundra.

The northernmost national park in the United States, entirely north of the Arctic Circle, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is a wilderness landscape of plains between mountains that rise in jagged majesty.

Glacier Bay National Park retains a unique scenic magic, offering everything you want to see in Alaska, viewable in a single day.

Remote yet easily accessed by floatplane, Katmai National Park hooks visitors from the very start—whether on a day trip to the bear-viewing stations at Brooks Camp, on a float trip down the Alagnak River, or camping in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

The smallest of Alaska's national parks, Kenai Fjords is a vast swath of ice and snow, glaciers, rocky coastline, bands of forest, and soaring above it all, bald eagles on the hunt for their next meal.

In the heart of the Arctic, Kobuk Valley National Park is one of the least visited parks in the system. What people miss by passing it by, though, are 100-foot-tall sand dunes, some of the oldest evidence of human settlement in North America, and the chance to experience a quarter-million caribou on the move.

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve offers a diversity of experiences and landscapes that cause even state residents to swoon.

By far the largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is a landscape protected by mountains, where glaciers flow through streaks of earth and nature's work goes on with almost no one to hear or see it.