8 national parks
Denali’s landscapes stretch from forest to tundra beneath the Alaska Range. Choose a park-road experience or an entrance-area outing that suits your time, with room for wildlife viewing and weather-dependent mountain views.
Discover this park →Gates of the Arctic is a wilderness undertaking rather than a conventional sightseeing drive. Its mountains and river valleys reward travelers who prepare carefully and work with experienced local transport and guiding providers.
Discover this park →Glacier Bay’s icy landscapes are best understood from the water. A boat-based visit from the Gustavus area or a cruise itinerary offers a changing panorama of mountains, inlets and glacier country.
Discover this park →Katmai combines bear-viewing opportunities with an extraordinary volcanic landscape. Most visits need air transport and careful coordination, making this an outing to arrange well before departure.
Discover this park →From Seward, the landscape opens toward glacier-carved fjords and the sea. Choose an Exit Glacier-area walk or a marine excursion according to your time, interests and comfort on the water.
Discover this park →Arctic sand dunes and a broad river landscape give Kobuk Valley an unusual wilderness character. This is a remote journey shaped by air access, weather and the skills needed to travel without visitor roads.
Discover this park →Lake Clark combines immense water-and-mountain landscapes with remote coastal bear-viewing areas. Choose the part of the park you want to experience, then arrange the transport and guiding that make it possible.
Discover this park →Wrangell–St. Elias combines enormous mountain country with the human stories of places such as Kennecott. It is a destination for deliberate planning, where the approach can be as significant as the sightseeing itself.
Discover this park →Parks spanning more than one state appear under each applicable state. Gateway communities and visit-planning notes are listed on each park page.
