Glacier Bay: the best-documented glacial retreat in the world
An Alaskan fjord where giant glaciers drop into the sea, among whales and sea lions. Most visitors discover it from a ship.
Denali: the highest peak in North America
The highest peak in North America, in the middle of an immense tundra where grizzlies, wolves and caribou live. You enter by bus, on a single road.
Kenai Fjords: the icefield that feeds 38 glaciers
A giant icefield spilling its glaciers into the sea, in southern Alaska. You approach it on foot via a glacier, or by boat among whales and puffins.
Wrangell-St. Elias: the largest national park in the United States
The largest national park in the United States, in Alaska: four mountain ranges, giant glaciers and a mining ghost town at the end of a 100 km gravel road.
Katmai: the highest concentration of brown bears in the world
The park of Alaska's brown bears: at Brooks Falls, they catch salmon in mid-leap, a few metres from the boardwalks. You can only get there by floatplane.
Lake Clark: Dick Proenneke's cabin, among volcanoes, glaciers and brown bears
Volcanoes, glaciers, turquoise lakes and brown bears on the beaches, an hour's flight from Anchorage. Alaska in a nutshell, with almost no visitors.
Gates of the Arctic: no roads, no trails, no visitors
The wildest and least visited national park in the United States: mountains and rivers north of the Arctic Circle, without a single road or trail.
Kobuk Valley: sand dunes above the Arctic Circle
Sand dunes north of the Arctic Circle, a river crossed by tens of thousands of caribou, and no road to get there.