We hope your visit is the experience of a lifetime. This summer you can visit and enjoy the award-winning Denali Visitor Center with its spectacular exhibit hall, a wonderful park film, Heartbeats of Denali, and the Denali Bookstore and Morino Grill. You can spend a few minutes or a few hours at the visitor center exploring the meaning and importance of Denali National Park and Preserve, learning about the natural and human history that makes this place so special. Park rangers will answer your questions, or sign you up for a ranger hike or education program offered by the National Park Service and by our partners at the Murie Science and Learning Center. Whatever your interest—sightseeing, hiking, camping, bicycling, exploring, history, nature study, or photography— you will find the new Denali Visitor Center a great place to start your visit.

Construction continues on the new Eielson Visitor Center. The new building will be a model of environmentally sensitive construction and sustainable design with indoor and outdoor viewing areas, new exhibits, interior eating, and interpretive program space. It will open to the public in 2008. Meanwhile, visit the temporary Visitor Information Station at the new Toklat Rest Stop while on your shuttle bus trip into the park.

Denali National Park and Preserve is a world-class treasure. It belongs to all Americans. As a wise person once said, “We do not own this land. We borrow it from our children.” Please enjoy it safely and treat it with great care. Special places don’t stay special by accident.

Paul R. Anderson
Superintendent