By Jenna

Locations Region-West State- Alaska Capital-Juneau Longitude °W Latitude °N

Landforms There are many, many landforms in Denali National Park. Mt. McKinley is 20,320 feet and is the highest point in North America. South peak is 20,320 feet. (Same as Mt. McKinley.) Mt. Foraker is 17,400 feet/5,303.5 meters. The North peak is 19,470 feet. The lowest point in the park is 200 feet. (Look at that compared to the highest point!)

Culture People did lots of things in Denali National Park for LOTS of years. Kayukon Athabaskans (the native Americans) were the first people to live in the park in BP. After the Native Americans, George Vancouver came. He was surveying the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet. The Government made the land a National Park in 1980 and in ,582 people visited the park.

Waterways Waterways play a big part in Denali National Park. Trout fishing sometimes occurs in Wonder Lake. The Nerara River is 150 miles long!!! The Tanana River ultimately empties into the Yukon River. The many rivers in Denali are mostly quite shallow moving over permafrost earth seasonally.

Rocks and Minerals There are many types of rocks and minerals in Denali National Park. Sedimentary rocks hardened the sitts and muds where dinosaurs pressed their toes and left tracks. In Denali these rock layers with dinosaurs tracks are called the lower Cantwell Formation. Fossils in the same rock layers where dinosaur fossils are found. They begin to put together a more complete story.