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Parks & forests

Denali National Park

A grizzly bear grazes in Grassy Pass. Mount McKinley -- the 20,320-foot peak locally known as Denali -- rises behind it.

Denali National Park is home to the tallest mountain in North America and an impressive array of wildlife.

Bears in the wild

Bears of the Interior

3 kinds of bears

Glacier Bay

A cruise ship delivers a close-up view of the ice in Glacier Bay National Park.

At Glacier Bay you can see tidewater glaciers and kayak through valleys and fjords carved by retreating glaciers.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Erik Hill/Anchorage Daily NewsThe National Park Service licenses local guides to offer tours of the mill building at Kennecott Mill Town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve.

Mountains, mines and glaciers are key to the largest national park, a world unto itself.

Kenai Fjords

Exit Glacier, in Kenai Fjords National Park, provides a stunning backdrop for a group of picnickers. The glacier, just outside of Seward, is accessible by car and then by foot to the face of the glacier and a short overlook trail or a longer trail to the Harding Icefield from which the glacier flows.

This national park is perfect for wildlife-viewing, kayaking or picnicking near a glacier.

Alaska's state parks

The end of summer brings red patches to the tundra vegetation in the valley along Chugach State Park's Rabbit Creek. Ptarmigan Peak is the in the background.

The state has over 100 state parks and recreation areas perfect for camping, fishing or a picnic.

National forests

Bicyclists Melissa DeVaughn and Mark Wedeking roll down the trail between Resurrection Pass and Devil's Pass on the Kenai Peninsula trail. In late August vegetation was just beginning to take a turn toward fall colors in this part of the Chugach National Forest.

Alaska's two national forests are great for fishing, hunting, or mountain biking.

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.

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Scenic

Sunrise paints the flanks of Mount McKinley with a warm glow in Denali National Park.

Activities

In just a couple of hours, a group led by Pat Volmer, a guide for Glacier City Snowmobile Tours in Girdwood, reached iceberg-studded Spencer Lake in a hidden valley deep in the Chugach Range.

Wildlife

Bull moose joust as part of their fall mating ritual in Anchorage. More than a dozen moose were seen at one time on an October day on a softball field in South Anchorage.

Places

The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Church was built on a bluff overlooking Cook Inlet on the Kenai Peninsula in 1901.

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