1. By Rhea Thakkal

2. Location Region-West State-Alaska Capital-Juneau Longitude-150.5000°W Latitude-63.3333°N

3. Landforms There are many, many land forms in Denali National Park. Mount McKinley is 20.320 feet and is the highest point in North America. South Peak is 20,320 feet. (Same as Mount McKinley). Mount Foraker is 17,400 feet. The north peak is 19,470 feet. The lowest point in the park is 200 feet. (Look at that compared to the highest point)

4. Culture People did lots of things in Denali National Park for LOTS of years. Kayukon Athabaskins (the native americans) were the first people to live in the park in 11,000 BP. After the Native Americans George Vancover came. He was surveying the knik Arm of the Cook Inlet. The Government made the land a national park in 1980 and in 2011 406,582 people visited the park.

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

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