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Kobuk Valley National
Park
One-half of all U.S. national park land
is in Alaska!
It's easy to see what the appeal is.
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Denali
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Gates of
the Arctic
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Glacier
Bay
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Katmai
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Kenai Fjords
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Kobuk Valley
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Lake Clark
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Wrangell
Saint Elias
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Kobuk Valley
Kobuk Valley National Park is encircled by the Baird and Waring mountain
ranges. The park provides protection for several important geographic features,
including the central portion of the Kobuk River, the 25-sqaure-mile Great
Kobuk Sand Dunes, and the Little Kobuk and Hunt River dunes.
Sand created by the grinding action of ancient glaciers has been carried
to the Kobuk Valley by both wind and water. Dunes now cover much of the
southern portion of the Kobuk Valley, where they are naturally stabilized
by vegetation. River bluffs, composed of sand and standing as high as
150 feet, hold permafrost ice wedges and the fossils of Ice Age mammals.
Kenai Fjords National Park | Kobuk Valley National Park
Lake Clark National Park | Wrangell St. Elias National Park
 Eight stars of gold on a field of blue, |
