Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
S. national park. The park’s scale includes road-accessible valleys, Nabesna and McCarthy corridors, Kennecott industry, subsistence landscapes, and immense trackless ice.
Artwork inspired by Sydney Laurence
Four mountain ranges, glaciers, volcanoes, and mining history form the largest U.S. national park. The park’s scale includes road-accessible valleys, Nabesna and McCarthy corridors, Kennecott industry, subsistence landscapes, and immense trackless ice. No single overlook can stand in for it.
Choose one corridor before leaving pavement—Copper Center, Nabesna, or McCarthy–Kennecott—and build the visit around its conditions and distances. Long gravel roads, private inholdings, limited fuel, and almost no cell service make route planning more important than mileage alone. Leave enough time to connect mountain ranges, glacier systems, and the surrounding community or ecosystem rather than reducing the place to one attraction.
- Established
- 1980
- Area
- 13.2 million acres
- Largest peak
- Mount St. Elias
Quick guide
- Start with
- Choose one corridor before leaving pavement—Copper Center, Nabesna, or McCarthy–Kennecott—and build the visit around its conditions and distances.
- Look closely at
- Read mountain ranges first, then reconsider glacier systems with that context in mind.
Know before you go
- Start with
- Choose one corridor before leaving pavement—Copper Center, Nabesna, or McCarthy–Kennecott—and build the visit around its conditions and distances.
- Look closely at
- Read mountain ranges first, then reconsider glacier systems with that context in mind.
- Connect the story
- The park’s scale includes road-accessible valleys, Nabesna and McCarthy corridors, Kennecott industry, subsistence landscapes, and immense trackless ice. No single overlook can stand in for it.
- Plan around
- Allow Half day–multi-day. Long gravel roads, private inholdings, limited fuel, and almost no cell service make route planning more important than mileage alone.
Good to know
Long gravel roads, private inholdings, limited fuel, and almost no cell service make route planning more important than mileage alone.
Notice these
- mountain ranges
- glacier systems
- Kennecott corridor