Denali Highway

We left Denali National Park in the evening, drove south to Cantwell, slept a few hours and then drove east on the Denali Highway starting very early in the morning. The Denali Highway is 135 miles of mostly gravel road running east and west between Cantwell and the ghost town of Paxson. It was originally built to provide access to Denali, but the Parks Highway has replaced it and the Denali Highway is little traveled now. We drove most of the distance without seeing another vehicle, but thought it one of the highlights of our Alaska trip. This was taken at one of first stops at a lake whose name I never discovered and cannot find now and looks south to the Talkeetna Range. There are many more pictures of this wonderful drive at the link below.