Doing a tour to Denali National Park from Fairbanks is a great winter visit idea. Having somebody else drive, provide a ...

This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic ... “bear jam” on Denali’s 92-mile-long Park Road, open to private vehicles only five days each summer.

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all ... but there are only two seasons observed there: summer, running mid-May to mid-September, and winter, which is the rest of the year.

Nearly every day during the summer, Skinner pilots small groups across the six-million-acre landmass that is Denali National Park and Preserve. He escorts visitors from the front of the park’s b ...