• Alagnak Wild River
  Wildlife Watching, primitave camping, and float trips. Katmai National Park and Preserve - King Salmon, Alaska.
  
  
• Alaska State Parks
  Alaska State Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation.
  
  
• Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve
  The Aniakchak Caldera, covering some 10 square miles, is one of the great dry calderas in the world. Located in the volcanically active Aleutian Mountains, the Aniakchak last erupted in 1911. King Salmon, Alaska.
  
  
• Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago. The land bridge itself is now overlain by the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea. Located in Northwest Alaska.
  
  
• Cape Krusenstern National Monument; Kobuk Valley National Park; and Noatak National Preserve
  Throughout the year programs offered at the Kotzebue Public Lands Information Center; camping, hiking, backpacking, wildlife observations and photography. Located in Kotzebue, Alaska.
  
  
• Denali National Park and Preserve
  Denali National Park & Preserve features North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot tall Mount McKinley. The Alaska Range also includes countless other spectacular mountains and many large glaciers. Denali's more than 6 million acres also encompass a complete sub-arctic eco-system with large mammals such as grizzly bears, wolves, Dall sheep, and moose.
  
  
• Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
  In establishing Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve (GAAR) in Alaska's Brooks Range, Congress has reserved a vast and essentially untouched area of superlative natural beauty and exceptional scientific value - a maze of glaciated valleys and gaunt, rugged mountains covered with boreal forest and arctic tundra vegetation, cut by wild rivers, and inhabited by far-ranging populations of caribou, Dall sheep, wolves, and bears (barren-ground grizzlies and black bears).
  
  
• Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
  Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a marine wilderness park. Here there are opportunities for adventure, a living laboratory for observing the ebb and flow of glaciers, and a chance to study life as it returns in the wake of retreating ice. Amidst majestic scenery, Glacier Bay offers us now, and for all time, a connection to a powerful and wild landscape. Located in Southeast Alaska.
  
  
• Katmai National Park and Preserve
  Katmai became a National Park & Preserve, and received Wilderness designation, by an act of Congress on December 2, 1980. The area is famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish, and rugged wilderness. Katmai is also the site of the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, recognized as having North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings (about 900). Park headquarters located in King Salmon, Alaska.
  
  
• Kenai Fjords National Park
  Authorized commercial guides provides camping, fishing and kayaking services. Air charters fly over the coast for flight seeing and access to the fjords. Boat tours and charters are available from Seward. In summer, boat tours ply the coast, observing calving glaciers, sea birds, and marine mammals. The park lies south and west of Seward, Alaska, 130 road miles south of Anchorage, on the Seward Highway.
  
  
• Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
  The wilderness that comprises Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a composite of ecosystems representative of many diverse regions throughout Alaska. Covering four million acres, the spectacular scenery stretches from the shores of Cook Inlet, across the Chigmit Mountains, to the tundra covered hills of the western interior.
  
  
• National Park Service Units in Alaska
  A list with links of National Parks in Alaska.
  
  
• Sitka National Historical Park
  Alaska's oldest federally designated park was established in 1910, to commemorate the battle of Sitka, which took place in 1804. All that remains of this last major conflict between Europeans and natives of the Northwest coast is the site of a Kiksadi Fort, located within the confines of this scenic 107 acre park in a temperate rain forest. Located in Sitka, Alaska.
  
  
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
  The Chugach, Wrangell, and St. Elias mountain ranges converge here in what is often referred to as the "mountain kingdom of North America." The largest unit of the National Park System and a day's drive east of Anchorage, Alaska, the park-preserve includes the continent's largest assemblage of glaciers and the greatest collection of peaks above 16,000 feet. Mount St. Elias, at 18,008 feet, is the second highest peak in the United States.
  
  
• Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
  Located along the Canadian border in central Alaska, the preserve protects 115 miles of the 1,800-mile Yukon River and the entire Charley River basin. Numerous rustic cabins and historic sites are reminders of the importance of the Yukon River during the 1898 gold rush. Paleontological and archeological sites here add much to our knowledge of the environment thousands of years ago.
  
  

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