National parks in Alaska

100ESSENTIAL NPS / T. VandenBerg

National Park & Preserve · AK

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Glacier Bay is one of the few places in the US where the landscape is actively, visibly changing.

100ESSENTIAL NPS/David Jacob

National Park & Preserve · AK

Katmai National Park & Preserve

Katmai is one of the most legitimately wild places in the American park system, full stop.

100ESSENTIAL USGS/Bruce Molnia

National Park · AK

Kenai Fjords National Park

Kenai Fjords is one of the few places in the US where you can watch glaciers calve into the ocean, kayak among icebergs, and spot marine wildlife all in a single day.

Aerial view of town in a valley with cruise ships in port

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo/S. Millard

National Historical Park · AK

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Skagway is one of the most underrated stops in Alaska, and this free park anchors the whole experience.

Photo of blue sky with fluffy white clouds reflect in calm lake with mountains in the background.

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / James Kramer

National Park & Preserve · AK

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Lake Clark is Alaska wilderness at its most uncompromising.

Glaciers loom over the ocean with large snowy mountains rising into blue skies

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo/ Neal Herbert

National Park & Preserve · AK

Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

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Aerial view of the Yukon River during fall colors

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / Josh Spice

National Preserve · AK

Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve

Yukon-Charley Rivers is one of the most genuinely remote preserves in the entire national park system, and that is precisely its value proposition.

96ESSENTIAL NPS Photo

National Park · AK

Kobuk Valley National Park

Kobuk Valley is one of the most genuinely remote parks in the American system, and that remoteness is the whole point.

Noatak River cuts through a green tundra landscape with distant mountains.

94ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / Annie Carlson

National Preserve · AK

Noatak National Preserve

Noatak is not a park you visit on a whim.

a white colored sheep standing on a mountainside overlooking a green valley

90ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / Nathan Kostegian

National Park & Preserve · AK

Denali National Park & Preserve

Denali is not a park you casually drop into.

Aerial view of the Alatna River as it winds through a valley

90ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / Sean Tevebaugh

National Park & Preserve · AK

Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve

Gates of the Arctic is not a park you visit casually.

82EXCELLENT NPS Photo

National Monument · AK

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

Cape Krusenstern is one of the most logistically demanding parks in the US system, and also one of the most rewarding for the right traveler.

A totem pole in the foreground with a sunset over water in the background.

78EXCELLENT NPS Photo

National Historical Park · AK

Sitka National Historical Park

Sitka NHP punches well above its size.

underwater photo of salmon swimming in river

73EXCELLENT NPS/R. Wood

Wild River · AK

Alagnak Wild River

Alagnak Wild River is not a park you stumble into.

A lone raft floats the Aniakchak Wild River as it flows through the "Gates"

73EXCELLENT NPS Photo/Troy Hamon

National Monument & Preserve · AK

Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve

Aniakchak is not a park you visit on a whim.

73EXCELLENT NPS / Roy Wood

National Preserve · AK

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Bering Land Bridge is not a park you stumble into.

Group of people around a Russian cross in tall grass

57WORTH IT NPS Photo

National Historic Area · AK

Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area

This is one of the most geographically remote national historic areas in the entire US system, and that remoteness is part of the point.

Museum exhibit case with fur parkas and boots

30NICHE NPS Photo

Park · AK

Iñupiat Heritage Center

This is not a hiking park or a scenic overlook.

Two Hikers stand on top of a very large granite boulder, looking out across the landscape

18NICHE NPS/Josh Spice

Park · AK

Alaska Public Lands

Alaska Public Lands is not a destination park in any conventional sense.