Denali National Park is one of the most amazing places I’ve been in my life.  A place we continue to talk about and already look forward to our next visit.

The lowest elevation in the park is 240 feet and the highest is Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet

Here we are enjoying our visit.

The colors were so beautiful.

Check it out!  Zoom little camera, ZOOM!  This is the best I could do with him.  This would be a caribou.

Bus Driver, stop this bus!  Well it didn’t go quite like that but this little guy was spotted and the driver gladly stopped the bus.  This little ground squirrel was right below my window.

This is my best shot of the moose.  We saw about 6 of them total but didn’t always have my camera ready.  We even saw a bull!

Another Caribou sighting!  Talk about a bus load of happy people.

We saw more than I can count of these guys in the wild and we even saw some domesticated ones which are called reindeer.  Of course the domesticated ones were not found in Denali.

Each view was worthy of a shot to remember

The Three Grizzly Bears – There was a momma (blond bear) with two black cubs and bear bait aka a human.  See photo below.  So the driver pulls over after someone on the bus yells out “BEARS”!  Some of the people on the bus begin to freak out when they see the human walking closer and closer to the bears.  He even crossed that little body of water and walked along side the bears.  The little cubs were curious and walked over to the edge of the brush but the momma just held her ground.

About that time the bus driver was ready to pull away saying the human knew what he was doing.  But no, the people insisted we wait right there to see to it that he was safe.  So we waited a little longer for all the freaked out people to calm down…Guess you had to be there.

Sorry, this is my best shot, it’s time for another camera for these shots.  Luckily the driver had a camera hooked to overhead monitors and we were all able to get a nice close look.

This sign has nails all around the edges to keep the grizzly’s from chewing up their signs.

Oh, we spy a glacier!  We didn’t have a nice clear day but we took in as much as we could from this trip.

And another

Oh my word, this Dall Sheep was resting right along side the road.

Quite fascinating to see these creatures climb and live on these steep mountains.

Again, there’s a big bird in there too, I forget what it is though.

Dall sheep with glaciers in the background.

One more shot…

Our narrow winding road.  Some of the folks on the bus had to switch sides as they did not like looking down over the edges.

We traveled 58 miles into the wilderness.  And thoughts of returning seems to be a daily occurrence.

The dense clouds still leave a little eye candy up there.  Would have enjoyed seeing a little more of the glacier and mountains.

Simply beautiful, here the sun came through and highlighted a small portion of the mountain.

Autumn was in the air

The night sky as our bus tour came to an end.

 And that wraps up a very short overview of our 8 + hour drive in the park.

To be continued…

Blessings – Debbie