Yesterday’s park was huge this one is massive, at 13 200,000 acres it is America’s largest National Park and often when I say it is my favorite in Alaska people respond with “What, I never heard of that park.” It is glorious. You can walk on the ocean shore, walk on a glacier, walk along wild rivers, walk to the top or a 17 story ore processing plant or on top of an 18,000 foot mountain. Well, you can do the latter. There are two roads one in the extreme North that meanders in a few miles - we turned around at a deep river crossing and one that requires a harrowing at times, 59 mile drive on an often single track (two way) road. You park at the end of the road and walk across a bridge where you can shuttle to the only hotel, an historic inn run by the park service. It was so much fun. We walked on a glacier, where the guide made us hot chocolate on the glacier, toured the remnant town, traversed all 17 stories of the decrepit ore processing plant and so much more. What a place and it is bordered in Canada by three more huge wilderness parks making the total the largest wilderness tract ln the world. Wow.
This will be a two part post - too many photos I have never processed so several more tomorrow.
