Denali Park Road

Cell Phone Coverage in Denali National Park

Cell phone coverage is so important to people today who live with a smart phone. You will have great coverage outside the park and in the park entrance area (Visitor Center, train depot, store, and restaurant). Once you head into the park a little past the Park Head Quarters you will lose all cell coverage. [...]

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Taking the Train is Traditional

The train is a great way to get to Denali National Park. The train was really the only way to visit Denali Park from 1922-1957. In the early years guests arrived by train and stayed in wall tents at Savage River Camp until the hotel opened in June 1, 1939. The Denali Highway opened in [...]

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A Day On The Denali Park Road

We came through Polychrome Pass in late June 2010 and saw a band of mature Dall sheep.They appeared to be agitated. Their attention was focused across the road. To our right a lone wolf had come from above and scared them across the road. They stared at the wolf as it tried to come down [...]

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Denali Park Road – Kantishna Roadhouse

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here. The next section we move through is to some people the most peaceful in the park. Most of the busses don’t go out to the Kantishna district. We also pass the [...]

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Denali Park Road – Eielson Visitor Center

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here.  The broad valley we now enter through Thoroughfare Pass was, like the others we have come through created by glaciation. The classic example of a glacially carved valley is U or [...]

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Denali Park Road – Mt McKinley

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here. By 11:15am we are ready to be out of the bus again. The National Park Service has graciously given us the opportunity to step out on the lower road edge below [...]

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Denali Park Road – Toklat & Caribou Creek

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here. The next section of the park road takes us down to the Toklat River rest stop for a brief restroom stop. Then it’s up into sub-alpine tundra again through a narrow [...]

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Denali Park Road – Polychrome Pass

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here. 9:45 am we pull into the rest stop at Poly-Chrome Pass. Most people don’t come to Denali because they have heard of it’s amazing geology. Except for the big mountain of [...]

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Denali Park Road – Sable Pass

This post is part of a series on the Traveling the Denali Park Road – to read the series from the beginning, click here. A typical spring day for us takes us into the Sable Pass at about 9am. Sable Pass is unique even by Denali standards. 5 square miles have been closed off to [...]

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Denali Park Road – Some History

There are roads and there are Roads, there are roads much traveled and  roads less traveled, there are roads to great cities and even, if you can imagine it, roads to lost and invisible cities, and then there’s the Denali Park road. The park has been described as one of the last of our Edens. [...]

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