DENALI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA

Denali (Den-al-ee) stands alone among the national parks; It gives regular people easy access to real wilderness, with sweeping tundra vistas, abundant wildlife, and North America's tallest mountain. 

John Hall's Alaska tours all feature the 10-12 hour Kantishna Wildlife Tour, showing you 40% more wildlife than the Tundra Wilderness Tour. Some itineraries even spend two nights at Kantishna, 95-miles deep within the park instead of staying at the park entrance.

Denali National Park & Preserve features North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot tall Mount McKinley. The Alaska Range also includes countless other spectacular mountains and many large glaciers. Denali's more than 6 million acres also encompass a complete sub-arctic eco-system with large mammals such as grizzly bears, wolves, Dall sheep, caribou and moose. 

Denali, the "High One," is the name the Athabascan native people gave the massive peak (Mount McKinley) that crowns the 600 mile long Alaska range. Many generations of native Athabascans wandered over this region before Caucasians began to discover and explore it. Nomadic bands hunted lowland hills of Denali's northern reaches spring through fall for caribou, sheep and moose. They preserved berries for winter, netted fish, and gathered edible plants. As snow began to fall, they migrated to lower elevations, closer to the river valleys' better protection from winter's severe weather.

Kantishna
Kantishna, just past Wonder Lake and on the banks of Moose Creek, you'll find some of Denali National Park's prettiest scenery. Several mining camps were established in this small, Denali backcountry town following the discovery of gold in Glacier Creek in 1905. The town’s population hit over 2000 during that first summer.

Thousands of gold seekers streamed into the Kantishna Hills during the fall and winter of 1905. "Practically every creek that heads into the Kantishna Hills was staked from source to mouth and intervening ridges were not ignored." Today, visitors from around the world come to Kantishna not for gold, but for the natural beauty and solitude of this naturally special place.

Alaska Cabin Nite Dinner
Get a taste of old-time Alaska at ALASKA CABIN NITE, the popular dinner theater performed in an authentic, log-paneled roadhouse. Join heroine, Fannie Quigley, and an unforgettable cast of characters in this true-to-life Gold Rush tale of adventure in early 1900s Alaska. It's a great mix of colorful storytelling, spirited music and humor, brought to life by talented performers. Everyone in your group will love the lighthearted entertainment and hearty cuisine of Alaska's most unique dinner theater. 

Jack London's Cabin and Interpretive Centre
American adventure writer Jack London lived in the Yukon less than a year–he left in June 1898 after a bout with scurvy–but his writings immortalized the North, particularly the animal stories like The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Son of Wolf. The cabin, a replica, contains more than 60 photos, documents, newspaper articles and other London memorabilia.

Diamond Tooth Gerties 
A place where visitors and locals alike gather to try their luck at the gambling tables and enjoy the nightly entertainment. 

Midnight Dome
It's named because from its summit at midnight on June 21 you can watch the sun dip to the horizon before rising again straight away – Dawson being only 300km south of the Arctic Circle . At the summer solstice there's a race to the top and lots of drink-sodden and fancy-dress festivities down in Dawson . Gold City Tours also run regular daytime and evening tours up here.