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. In 1939, Park Service ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...