Alaska National Parks

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
The Aniakchak Caldera, covering some 10 square miles, is one of the great dry calderas in the world. Located in the volcanically active Aleutian Mountains, the Aniakchak last erupted in 1911.

Bering Land Bridge
A remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago.

Denali National Park
Denali National Park & Preserve features North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot tall Mount McKinley.

Gates of the Arctic National Park
Glaciated valleys and rugged mountains covered with boreal forest and arctic tundra vegetation, cut by wild rivers, and inhabited by far-ranging populations of caribou, Dall sheep, wolves, and bears.

Glacier Bay National Park
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a marine wilderness park. Here there are opportunities for adventure, a living laboratory for observing the ebb and flow of glaciers, and a chance to study life as it returns in the wake of retreating ice.

Katmai National Park
Katmai is famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish, and rugged wilderness. Katmai is also the site of the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, recognized as having North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings.

Kenai Fijords National Park
Located on the southeastern Kenai Peninsula, the national park is a pristine and rugged land supporting many unaltered natural environments and ecosystems.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon brought thousands of gold hungry stampeders to Skagway and Dyea, Alaska.

Lake Clark National Park
The wilderness that comprises Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a composite of ecosystems representative of many diverse regions throughout Alaska.

Sitka National Historical Park
Alaska's oldest federally designated park was established in 1910 to commemorate the Battle of Sitka, which took place in 1804.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
The Chugach, Wrangell, and St. Elias mountain ranges converge here in what is often referred to as the "mountain kingdom of North America.

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Located along the Canadian border in central Alaska, the preserve protects 115 miles of the 1,800-mile Yukon River and the entire Charley River basin.


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