Category Ranking
Best National Parks for Solo Travelers in Alaska
The top Alaska national parks for solo travelers, ranked by solo travelers score.
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Denali National Park & Preserve
North America's tallest peak anchors six million acres where one road separates you from wilderness and grizzlies outnumber summit-spotters.
Katmai National Park & Preserve
Brooks Falls draws 2,200 brown bears to its salmon runs—North America's largest protected population concentrated in one watershed.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Fifteen tidewater glaciers calve into a 65-mile fjord where humpback whales surface within camera range, reachable only by boat or plane.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Exit Glacier is the only glacier in Alaska you can reach by road, with retreat markers showing how fast the ice is vanishing.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Two active volcanoes, 42-mile glacial lake, and bears fishing roadless salmon streams you can only reach by floatplane.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
America's largest park holds nine of the continent's sixteen highest peaks, including Mount St. Elias, with glaciers you can drive to.
Kobuk Valley National Park
Six hundred square miles of sand dunes rise from Arctic tundra, carved by 15,000-year-old winds still pushing them across permafrost.
Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
Six million acres where caribou migrations follow ancient routes and the Brooks Range rises through valleys most will never reach.