This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Park rangers here call the high season—from June through early September, when Denali National Park and Preserve ...

Courtesy Image In today’s ever-busy National Park Service landscape ... with clear-eyed views of the mountain—blend naturally into the flower-dotted alpine scenery. “Because of our position in the ...

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers and snow-covered peaks. Covering more than 6 million acres and home to ...

Yosemite National Park, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is famed for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, and giant sequoia trees. Towering landmarks like El Capitan and ...

Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali.

This Alaskan Railbookers itinerary offers one of the best ways to explore the Land of the Midnight Sun. Railbookers has an 11 ...

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

In the United States, a national park is an area of isolated land protected by the government in order to foster conservation and outdoor activities as well as emphasize national pride. Sovereign ...