RHH's photos with the keyword: wonder lake

Sitka Burnet potographed near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, Alaska.

In 2015 when we were in Alaska we spent several days in Denali National Park. We camped at the Sanctuary River and took the bus to Wonder Lake, hiking back along the Park Road after visiting the lake, eventually catching the bus back to our campground. This was one of the ponds along the road.

We spent several days in Denali National Park in 2015 when we visited Alaska in celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary. We camped at the Sanctuary River and took the bus to Wonder Lake one of those days. It was very smoky in Denali and so we never saw the mountain itself, but enjoyed the park nonetheless. This was Wonder Lake from which we hiked back part way along the Park Road, eventually catching the bus back to our campground.

This is another of my wife's photos, this one from Wonder Lake near the end of the single ninety-two mile road into Denali National Park. We had taken the bus to the end of the road and spent some time at Wonder Lake before doing a bit of hiking. Some of the best views of Mount McKinley can be had from the lake but when we were there it was very hazy and smokey.

As anyone who has visited Denali National Park knows, private vehicles are not ordinarily allowed beyond the first twelve miles of park roadway. To see the interior of the park by way of the one road that leads into the park, there are buses available, and they are a very good way to see the park, too, stopping often and with very knowledgeable drivers. One of the days we were in Denali we took the bus to Wonder Lake, an eleven hour round trip. The trip was wonderful and we did some hiking along the way (catching another bus when we were finished hiking), but we did not see Mount McKinley, one of the disappointments of the trip. Not only was it cloudy the days we were in the park but there were numerous wildfires burning as well, the result of a hot and dry summer. This was about as much as we could see anywhere.