Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve

Root Glacier hike is a must! We loved this national park. Definitely worth putting on your list to visit. Beautiful park. Town of McCarthy was great!

Not my favorite national park but had to check it off the list while in Alaska! We visited the Kennicot mines and took a tour as our park experience. Very interesting history, restoration, and the guided tour was great. We took two shuttles because everyone warned us against the road into the park (4hrs each way). Once there we spent 4hrs walking the old miner town. 8 hours of commuting for 4 hours in the park wasn’t ideal. There is a diner and hotel there which we had a nice lunch. Spend the night if you can make it work with your itinerary.

The road to McCarthy wasn’t bad, a few sections of washboard. The worst area was just before McCarthy. The park is always magnificent. Well worth the drive. The “end of the road” base camp is a fine place to camp, but they don’t provide ANY amenities (no picnic tables) crude fire rings and sparse outhouses, but nice views

Beautiful and remote. I backpacked here with a group of friends in the summer on the less-visited north side. The mountains are incredible, and there is an abundance of wildlife. There are tons of signs of moose, bear, and mountain goats. We ran into a couple of bear kills that weren't that old, so if you're not experienced with remote backcountry hiking or backpacking, this isn't the place for you. If you are, this is a fun and beautiful place to explore and experience solitude.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park can be challenging to adequately review. On one hand, it's one of the most stunning landscapes in the world; it's home to some of the largest mountains in North America, the world's largest vertical icefall, and over 1900 square miles of the seemingly infinite Bagley Icefield. The list of impressive geological features goes on and on. On the other hand, it is nearly impossible to experience most of our largest National Park. You could see most of it by air, but that's impersonal and abstract (although strongly recommended). Most visitors see it from McCarthy or Nabesna. Even fewer backpack into the remote wilderness. There are no towns, no roads, and no trails for almost all 13.2 million acres of this preserve All that being said, Wrangell-St. Elias has risen to the top of my favorite National Parks. It is challenging to get to and ammendities are nonexistent in most of the park, but few places can compete with the natural beauty of this diverse glacial and mountainous landscape. It is a land almost untouched by human development and I believe the inability to fully explore most of this land adds to its grandness. I'll let these pictures speak for themselves

Quite a drive to get there with the distance and long delays due to road construction. Only two rougher roads going into the park, so you need to allow more time than we had to get out to the end of McCarthy road. We only went as far as the old high bridge. We did not see many animals in the park, just a beaver lodge in a pond. It was a cloudy day so the mountain views were washed out. A clear day would be spectacular. Chitina is the entry town for McCarthy road, and there was a lot of Salmon fishing, including fish wheels. The Visitor's Center on the Richards road was small but interesting with friendly staff.

Decent park overall, but Root Glacier made it a great visit!

It's not my favorite national park, but I had to check it off my list! The mountains and scenery are gorgeous. However, if you dont have any gear for backpacking, camping, or glacier hiking, it's pretty boring. Biggest national park in the US, and they were not joking! LOTS OF DRIVING and with construction, a lot of wait and go. We wished we had camp here but was visiting and traveling to multiple places. Highlight was liberty falls!