Visit Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska
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Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Created in 1980 and extending to over five million hectares, Wrangell St. Elias is the largest national park in the USA and a place that defies superlatives.
It encompasses several mountain ranges and boasts nine of the sixteen highest peaks in North America, including the second and third highest.
Bordered by Canada’s Kluane National Park the two parks together make up over eight million hectares of canyons, valleys, towering mountains and ice-fields. The 204 kilometre-long Bagley Icefield is the largest non-polar ice sheet in North America, whilst the Malaspina Glacier alone is larger than Rhode Island state.
Wildlife here transcends all other Alaskan parks in its abundance and diversity, with healthy populations of moose, grizzly and black bears, Dall sheep, wolverines, mountain goats and three herds of caribou.
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Suggested Wrangell St. Elias National Park itinerary
This sample itinerary will give you an idea of what is possible when you travel in Wrangell St. Elias National Park, and showcases routes we know work particularly well. Treat this as inspiration, because your trip will be created uniquely by one of our specialists.
Alaska Explorer
This trip is an ideal balance of highlights and exploration for the first time visitor to Alaska. It includes the best known sights as well as including some Audley surprises. Arriving in Anchorage, guests will drive north to Denali where they will visit the national park in the shadow of Mount Denali. Continuing north, in Fairbanks you can take an optional light aircraft trip beyond the Arctic Circle, before you drive to the historic ghost town of Kennicott and McCarthy in Wrangell-St Elias National Park. Cross Prince William Sound, looking at glaciers and whales, to Seward to visit beautiful Kenai Fjords National Park. Finally you will visit Homer on the Kenai Peninsula where there is an option to view grizzly bears in Katmai National Park.
Map of Wrangell St. Elias National Park
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Places near Wrangell St. Elias National Park
- McCarthy & Kennicott 44 miles away
- Tok 93 miles away
- Valdez 124 miles away
- Prince William Sound 165 miles away
- Denali Park Entrance 214 miles away
- Talkeetna 230 miles away
- Anchorage 232 miles away
- Fairbanks 245 miles away
- Cooper Landing 247 miles away
- Seward 251 miles away
- Denali National Park 267 miles away
- Kenai Peninsula 272 miles away
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