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.
The park was established as Mt. McKinley National Park on February 26, 1917. The original park was designated a wilderness area and incorporated into Denali National Park and Preserve in 1980. The Park was designated an international biosphere reserve in 1976.
Today the park accommodates a wide variety of visitor use including wildlife viewing, mountaineering, and backpacking. It continues to provide a laboratory for research in the natural sciences.
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Temperature | 50.0° F | Sunrise | 4:33 am |
| Feels Like | 50.0° F | Sunset | 11:21 pm | |
| Barometer | 30.09 | Wind | calm | |
| Dewpoint | 32.0° F | Gusts | none | |
| Humidity | 50% | Visibility | 10 miles | |
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Reported by NOAA on May 23 2013, 11:53 pm AKDT from Talkeetna, AK
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| Fri May 24 Partly Cloudy |
Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu |
| High Temp F | 64° | 67° | 65° | 66° | 67° | 69° | 68° |
| Low Temp F | 37° | 40° | 42° | 47° | 47° | 49° | 49° |
| Precipitation | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 21% |
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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:37:45 GMT
Frigid mid-May temperatures leave Denali Park businesses struggling to open - Alaska Dispatch