Overview
About Denali Viewpoint
Why stop
- Clear weather can reveal one of Alaska's most imposing mountain views.
Heads up
- Cloud can hide the peak completely; this is a roadside view stop.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Denali Highway Tour Guide
Your drive to Denali Viewpoint, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Denali Highway. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Denali Highway audio tourRecorded for this place
Denali Viewpoint: When the Mountain Is Out“Denali Viewpoint is coming up, and if the mountain is out, this is a stop I'd keep. Denali rises to twenty thousand three hundred and ten feet, the highest peak in North America.”
Plays as you drive up to Denali Viewpoint in the Parkwolf Denali Highway Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- When a River Leaves a Lake Behind
- One Aspen, Many Trunks
- Sunset Without a Dark Night
- Cantwell: Fuel, Food and Charging
- 96 audio storiesacross Denali Highway’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Moose, Caribou, Bald Eagle, and 10 more
- Works offlinemaps, 18 trails, 27 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Denali Viewpoint
The clear-day stopDenali Viewpoint is a roadside mountain-view stop on the western Denali Highway, within the…
Denali Viewpoint is a roadside mountain-view stop on the western Denali Highway, within the roughly six-mile Denali View stretch. When the sky is clear, Denali rises sharply above the surrounding landscape and makes this a memorable pause on the drive. Cloud can hide the summit completely, so this is a good stop when the mountain is out, not a guaranteed view.
Denali's outsized riseDenali is North America's highest peak at 20,310 feet.
Denali is North America's highest peak at 20,310 feet. About 80 percent of that height rises above the surrounding landscape, giving it a greater base-to-summit rise than Everest. That is what makes the mountain look so imposing from this broad, open country.
The view follows the roadThis is a viewing stretch rather than one built overlook: the Denali View section runs from…
This is a viewing stretch rather than one built overlook: the Denali View section runs from milepost 124 to 130.5, with the reverse-direction markers 11 to 4.5. The mapped viewpoint is a single named point within that stretch, but the mountain view can open up along the road too.
Take it slowlyMost of the Denali Highway is graded gravel, and the Bureau of Land Management recommends no…
Most of the Denali Highway is graded gravel, and the Bureau of Land Management recommends no more than 35 mph on gravel. Give the view section time, keep your eyes on the road, and pull over safely before looking for Denali.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Denali Highway
56 sightingsMooseMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
37 sightingsCaribouMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
26 sightingsBald EagleMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
33 sightingsTrumpeter SwanMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
25 sightingsBeaverMost seen around 9 PMSighting map
17 sightingsPorcupineMost seen around 10 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Denali Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
