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Denali National Park. By Jenna. Locations. Region-West State- Alaska Capital-Juneau Longitude-150.5000 °W Latitude-63.3333 °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.
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Denali National Park By Jenna
Locations • Region-West • State- Alaska • Capital-Juneau • Longitude-150.5000°W • Latitude-63.3333°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 11000 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 2011 406,582 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.