Snow-capped mountains in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Claus Cramer/500px/Getty Images The park is open year-round, but summer, from around mid-May to mid-September, sees the highest visitation.

Get Wrangell-St. Elias information, facts, photos, and more in this Wrangell-St. Elias National Park guide from National Geographic. ... and the St. Elias—tallest coastal mountains in the world.

There’s a reason 18,008-foot Mount St. Elias isn’t summitted very often. ... and mountain guide and friend Dan Corn, who ran safety for the expedition. Nick Russell Mt St Elias Climb ...

Mountain landscape in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve covers 13.2 million acres. That means you can’t see everything, or even close to everything ...

At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States and covers roughly the same area as the next two biggest national parks combined (Denali and Gates of ...

A rainbow glows over sunlit Sourdough Peak near McCarthy. (Anne Raup / ADN) At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States and covers roughly the same ...

Wrangell St-Elias is a big deal, literally. It’s America’s largest national park. “Wrangell-St. Elias encompasses one of the largest concentrations of mountains, glaciers, rivers, and ...

Caribou, glaciers, World Heritage Site. Location: Alaska Size: 9,078,675 acres Year Designated: 1980 Fast Fact: At almost 10 million acres, the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness is larger than Belgium.

Kayaking at the Kennecott glacial lake at Wrangle-St Elias National Park is an other-worldly kayaking experience. See what to ...

In 1937, American explorer Bradford Washburn abandoned a cache of heavy equipment, including cameras, while attempting to climb Mount Lucania in the Saint Elias Mountains of northwestern Canada.