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Set aside as a park in 1917, Denali National Park has had a team of canine rangers nearly its entirely history. Snapshots from the Past Explore park history through a tour of the park road with this free book written by Jane Bryant.
The Cultural Resources program at Denali documents and shares the stories of people and the land, now and in the past, and helps preserve places and objects with special history. People have made their homes on lands now within park boundaries for perhaps as long as 12,000 years.
On the eve of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the name of the highest peak in North America changed from “Mount McKinley” to “Denali.” The timing of the change not only helped mark the agency’s centennial, it shines a light on the long human history of the park, and illuminates a naming debate that has lasted ...
Inspired by the beauty of the Toklat River, naturalist Charles Sheldon spent nine years lobbying for legislation to create the park—the first national park in Alaska. Originally established in...
Here was a once-upon-a-time land, the most accessible wilderness in Alaska, a park to protect wild animals by protecting the place where they lived, the first national park created after the creation of the National Park Service in August 1916. The world was changing and Murie wanted to be part of it.
Denali National Park was officially established in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson as Mount McKinley National Park. The park was created to protect the diverse wildlife and pristine wilderness of the area, including the iconic Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley), the highest peak in North America.
History. Prehistory and protohistory. Human habitation in the Denali Region extends to more than 11,000 years before the present, with documented sites just outside park boundaries dated to more than 8,000 years before the present.
The park and preserve were created in 1980, encompassing the former Mount McKinley National Park (1917) and an additional 6,405 square miles (16,590 square km). In 1976 it was designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve. The park has an area of 7,408 square miles (19,187 square km).
1839. Baron Ferdinand von Wrangell, publishes a map of Alaska approximately locating the massif with the label “Tenada.” Due to cartographic ambiguities, the mountain is dropped from later Russian maps. Thus the Native naming fades from use. 1867. Russia sells Alaska to the United States of America. 1868.
Denali National Park started out as a game refuge before growing into a mountain refuge and was named Mount McKinley National Park when first established in 1917 by presidential and congressional order.