Alaska Park List

Aleutian World War II National Historic Area Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve Kenai Fjords National Park Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve Denali National Park & Preserve Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Sitka National Historical Park Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Alagnak Wild River

The headwaters of the Alagnak Wild River lie within the rugged Aleutian Range of neighboring Katmai National Park & Preserve. Every year, this wild and scenic river changes its course and branches anew, for which reason its sometimes called the “Branch River.” The Alagnak’s extraordinary rainbow trout, char, grayling, and abundant salmon has helped it become one of the most popular fishing destinations in all of southwest Alaska. Located 290 miles southwest of Anchorage, AK, the Alagnak traverses the beautiful Alaska Peninsula, providing an unparalleled opportunity to experience the unique wilderness, wildlife, and cultural heritage of southwest Alaska.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve is one of the least visited units of the National Park System, due to its remote location and notoriously bad weather. However, this vibrant reminder of Alaska's location in the volcanically active "Ring of Fire," is truly impressive. One of the highlights of the park is a magnificent six-mile wide, 2,500 ft. deep caldera formed during a massive eruption 3,500 years ago.
Cape Krusenstern National Monument

North of the Arctic Circle, Cape Krusenstern is north of the Arctic Circle and stretches 70 miles along the Chukchi Sea shoreline. Beach ridges provide proof of 5,000 years of human activity, and Inupiat people continue to use the resources today. Expansive wetlands produce food, water, and shelter for migratory birds. Carpets of tundra wildflowers and sometimes musk oxen, moose, or caribou can be spotted in the park by hikers and boaters alike.

Denali National Park and Preserve
Welcome to Denali National Park and Preserve, which is more than just a mountain! Denali's dynamic glaciated landscape supports a diversity of wildlife with grizzly bears, caribou, wolves, Dall sheep and moose. Summer slopes are graced with birds and wildflowers. Visitors enjoy sightseeing, backpacking, mountaineering, and research opportunities. Whether climbing or admiring, the crowning jewel of North America's highest peak is the awe inspiring 20,320 foot Mount McKinley.
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is a remote wilderness area located above the Arctic Circle and far from any roads. With careful planning, visitors can access the Park and Preserve by taking a bush plane from a local village or by hiking in from the Dalton Highway or the village of Anaktuvuk Pass. Traveling through this vast wilderness, you will discover craggy ridges, glacier carved valleys and fragile flowers. Come and experience solitude in the intact ecosystems of the park, where people have lived with the land for thousands of years.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Welcome to the marine wilderness of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which includes tidewater glaciers, snow-capped mountain ranges, ocean coastlines, deep fjords, and freshwater rivers and lakes. An abundance of plant communities and a variety of marine and terrestrial wildlife exist in this diverse land and seascape. opportunities for adventuring and learning about this unique and powerful place abound in this magical land.
Katmai National Park and Preserve

Katmai National Park and Preserve is justly famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish and rugged wilderness. The park also has some noteworthy historic features - it is the site of the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, with North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings (about 900). If volcanic activity was what originally sparked the interest of the National Park Service, population of brown bears continues to be one of the area's most salient features and major attractions.

Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords national Park is a dramatic glacial landscape of ice, tidewater glaciers, deeply chiseled fjords and jagged peninsulas - 607,805 acres of unspoiled wilderness on the southeast coast of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The park is capped by the Harding Icefield, a relic from past ice-ages and the largest icefield entirely within U.S. borders. At Kenai, visitors can witness a landscape continuously shaped by glaciers, earthquakes and storms.
Kobuk Valley National Park

Sand dunes, the Kobuk River, Onion Portage, and the Baird Mountains are just some of the facets of Kobuk Valley National Park. Half a million caribou migrate through, their tracks crisscrossing the sand-sculpted dunes. The Kobuk River is an ancient and current path for people and wildlife. For 9,000 years, people came to Onion Portage to harvest caribou as they swam the river. Even today, that rich tradition continues.

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a composite of ecosystems representing distinctly different regions of Alaska. The spectacular scenery stretches from the shores of Cook Inlet, across the Chigmits, where the Alaska and Aleutian ranges meet, are an awesome sight - a jagged array of mountains and glaciers that include two active volcanoes: Mount Redoubt and Mount Iliamna.