Not because I didn’t enjoy the thrill and convenience of flying in a bush plane—I did—but because the bumpy Alaskan air on the mild July afternoon bullied us from the jump. “They don’t call it Windy ...

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers and snow-covered peaks. Covering more than 6 million acres and home to ...

This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Park rangers here call the high season—from June through early September, when Denali National Park and Preserve ...

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Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali. In 1939, Park Service ...