Kobuk Valley National Park is encircled by the Baird and Waring mountain ranges.
As one of North America's largest mountain-ringed river basins with an intact ecosystem, the Noatak River environs features some of the Artic's finest arrays of plants and animals.
The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote national park areas, located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. The Preserve is a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13, 000 years ago.
Cape Krusenstern National Monument is a treeless coastal plain dotted with sizable lagoons and backed by gently rolling limestone hills.
It's more than a mountain. Denali National Park & Preserve features North America's highest mountain, 20, 320-foot tall Mount McKinley. The Alaska Range also includes countless other spectacular mountains and many large glaciers.
By establishing Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve (GAAR) in Alaska's Brooks Range, Congress has reserved a vast and essentially untouched area of superlative natural beauty and exceptional scientific value - a maze of glaciated valleys and gaun
Katmai is famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish, and rugged wilderness and is also the site of the Brooks River National Historic Landmark with North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings (about 900).
Sweeping from rocky coastline to glacier-crowned peaks, Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses 607, 805 acres of unspoiled wilderness on the southeast coast of Alaska?s Kenai Peninsula.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a composite of ecosystems representative of many regions of Alaska. The spectacular scenery stretches from the shores of Cook Inlet, across the Chigmit Mountains, to the tundra covered hills of the western interior.
The Chugach, Wrangell, and St. Elias mountain ranges converge here in what is often referred to as the "mountain kingdom of North America.
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.
The Recreation Program manages recreational use to administer visitor services, resource protection, tourism, volunteers and partnerships.
Beaver Creek NWR is a Class I, clear water river, that flows past jagged limestone peaks in the White Mountains and through the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge before joining the Yukon River. It may be the longest road-to-road float in North America.
The Iditarod National Historic Trail is a network of 2, 037 miles of trails once used by ancient Alaska Natives and early 20th- century prospectors.
Crossing the Brooks Range is one of the true motoring adventures available in North America. One of the best places to see Dall sheep in Alaska is on the rocky slopes of Atigun Pass (mile 240, elevation 4, 739 feet) along Dalton Highway.
This 1-million-acre area is used primarily from February to April, when dog-mushers, snowmobilers, and skiers come to take advantage of the winter solitude and northern lights.
The Campbell Tract is a 730-acre natural area used mostly by urban recreationists seeking a piece of Alaska wilderness in the heart of the Anchorage.
The Chena Project offers a host of recreational opportunities and a variety of Alaskan scenery to enjoy throughtout the year.
You can camp in a campground - or in a cabin. You can hike through dense forest, alpine meadow, or on a wooden trail through marshland called muskeg. You can explore world-class caves.
The mountains and waters of the Kenai Peninsula, the islands and glaciers of Prince William Sound, and the wetlands and birds of the Copper River Delta make this forest a prime destination for adventurers the world over.