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Alaska's other national parks

In addition to the four major national parks, Alaska boasts four other national parks, two national historical parks and four national monuments.

Alaska's national monuments

Alaska has four national monuments. All of them are off the road system.

Kobuk Valley National Park

The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are Kobuk Valley National Park's surprise feature. Inland between Ambler and Noorvik along the Kobuk River, the crescent-shaped dunes of sand move back and forth across the ancient land.

Gates of the Arctic National Park

When explorer Robert Marshall came to this part of the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountains in the country, he saw the Koyukuk River pouring out between Boreal Mountain and Frigid Crags and called them the "Gates of the Arctic." When the park was created in 1980, the name was made permanent.

Lake Clark National Park

The Tlikakila River, a National Wild And Scenic River, takes a sharp horse shoe bend just before it empties into Little Lake Clark on the North East end of Lake Clark in Lake Clark National Park.

Glacier-topped volcanoes, broad lakes, cliffs and coastline make up the wild country that is Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

Sitka National Historical Park

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Katmai National Park and Preserve

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Alaska has four national monuments. All of them are off the road system.

Admiralty Island National Monument

Admiralty Island National Monument, 15 miles west of Juneau in Southeast Alaska, has the world's highest concentration of brown bears, about one per square mile, and many bald eagles.

The monument covers almost 1,500 square miles, which amounts to 90 percent of the island. The village of Angoon sits on the western side of the island.

Aniakchak

Aniakchak National Monument, 150 miles southwest of King Salmon on the Alaska Peninsula, features a collapsed 7,000-foot volcano with a lake in the 2,000-foot-deep caldera.

Standing above a bear-filled forest and whipped by Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska storms, it's the least visited national monument in the country. It covers 900 square miles.

Cape Krusenstern

Cape Krusenstern National Monument, north of Kotzebue along the Chukchi Sea, has 114 beach ridges that show thousands of years of continual habitation by Native groups harvesting the area's sea mammals and berries. It covers 1,030 square miles of Arctic Alaska.

Misty Fjords

Misty Fjords National Monument protects a part of the Tongass National Forest east of Ketchikan. The wilderness and nonwilderness areas together cover 3,600 square miles; its 3,375 square miles of wilderness is the largest patch of national forest wilderness in Alaska.

The first U.S. Army post in Alaska, Fort Tongass (1868 to 1870), was situated inside this area. The monument has a great variety of wildlife; old-growth hemlock, spruce and cedar; glacially carved scenery; and nearly constant precipitation.