Tagged: Mt. McKinley National Park

Former superintendent’s office is one of oldest buildings at Denali National Park

According to Jane Bryant’s book, Snapshots from the Past, a Roadside History of Denali National Park and Preserve, in 1914 a frontier settlement coalesced near the present-day visitor center (at that time outside the...

The Fageol Safety Bus and the Denali Park Road

The Fageol Safety Bus and the Denali Park Road

Buses have ferried Denali National Park and Preserve (originally Mt. McKinley National Park) visitors into the park for more than 80 years. The Fageol Safety Bus shown in the drawing (the most modern bus...

Denali Highway history and Whitey’s cabin at Maclaren River

Whitey’s cabin in 2004. When the Denali Highway opened in 1957 it was more than just a 135-mile scenic byway between Paxson and Cantwell.  It was the connecting road from Mt. McKinley National Park...