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Denali Highway (Alaska Route 8) is a lightly traveled, mostly gravel highway in the U.S. state of Alaska. It leads from Paxson on the Richardson Highway to Cantwell on the Parks Highway . Opened in 1957, it was the first road access to Denali National Park .
The Denali Fault Bend represents a curvature in the Denali Fault that is approximately 75 km long. This curvature creates what is known as a "space problem". As the right-lateral movement along the Denali Fault continues, high compressional forces created at the fault bend essentially push the crust up in a vertical fashion.
The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve—2,146,580 acres (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km 2 ) that correspond with the former park boundaries before 1980.
AK-1 (Seward Highway) near Hope: Porcupine Campgrounds in Hope c. 1928: current Forest Highway 14 inside Chugach National Forest: Johansen Expressway: 4.2: 6.8 University Avenue in College: AK-2 (Steese Expressway) in Fairbanks — — Only highway in Alaska to have exit numbers Kenai Spur Highway: 38.787: 62.422 AK-1 (Sterling Highway) in Soldotna
Alaska Route 3, the George Parks Highway, passes through Cantwell: Anchorage is 212 miles (341 km) to the south, and Fairbanks is 150 miles (240 km) to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Cantwell CDP has a total area of 117.6 square miles (304.7 km 2 ), of which 117.3 square miles (303.8 km 2 ) is land and 0.35 square ...
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AK-35, "Mount McKinley Headquarters, Cantwell, Denali Borough, AK", 1 photo, 1 color transparency, 4 data pages, 2 photo caption pages; HABS No. AK-35-A, "Mount McKinley Headquarters, Employee Residence", 1 photo, 2 measured drawings, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page
It is located in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough [3] adjacent to the east side of Denali National Park and Preserve, along the Parks Highway. View of Alaska Range from Denali State Park. The park is undeveloped wilderness except for the two day-use areas, four campgrounds, and two trailheads accessible from the Parks Highway. These include: [1]
Denali Borough, Alaska, in which the mountain and most of the park are located; Denali Fault, intracontinental strike-slip fault; Denali Highway, Alaska State Highway 8; Denali State Park, a state park near the national park; Denali, Alaska, a former mining settlement near Valdez Creek approximately 50 miles east of Cantwell.