Alaska's National Parks (Part One) - A Hub-Cation

Alaska is home to 8 of the United States' 59 National Parks. These 8 National Parks include Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Lake Clark, Wrangell-St. Elias, Denali, Kobuk Valley, and Gates of the Arctic.

Part One includes Glacier Bay NP, Katmai NP, Kenai Fjords NP, and Lake Clark NP.

Click here to view part two (link at bottom as well).

Sit back and relax as you enter virtually into these beautiful lands on this hub-cation.

This is primarily a visual journey, and I will not bore you with run on paragraphs of text about these beautiful places. As they say, a picture is better than a thousand words.

However, if you would like to read some information about Glacier Bay National Park, I have found some excellent links which I will list at the beginning of each section.

Also, each image is used legally, and the link provided with the image will take you to the page where I found it where you can find what license it was released under.

Most images are pretty high resolution so you can go to the original page to see it blown up full size if you would like to download it or just view it better.

Read about Glacier Bay National Park:

National Geographic page

GORP page

Click the links below if you are interested in reading more about Katmai National Park:

National Geographic page

GORP page

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes wiki

National Geographic page

GORP page

National Geographic page

GORP page

Click here to continue on to part two.

I also recommend Google Earth as a great interface for exploring these places further. You can enable pictures which show up as little boxes on the location they were taken at, allowing you to both explore the terrain and satellite imagery as well as actual photos. That is, if you cannot actually travel there in person!

Google Earth Webpage