McCarthy Road - Alaska, United States
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Mccarthy Road Alaska
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Travel blogs from McCarthy Road:
- ... Compared to McCarthy Road, it is described as The Road Less Traveled ...
- ... Just past the hamlet of Chitina, the McCarthy Road starts ...
- ... The drive was an adventure, and the road much better than the more heavily travelled McCarthy Road in the southern part of Wrangell-St ...
- ... The shuttle ride in, over this McCarthy Road, is a spine re-aligning three hour trip; the highlight is a 525' long railroad bridge that towers ...
- ... At the car we stowed all of our soaking wet outer layers and headed back down McCarthy Road for home ...
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- McCarthy, Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States
- Palmer, Alaska, United States
Photos in this video:
- - start of McCarthy Road by Lobo from a blog titled Wrangell - Saint Elias National Park- Part 1 of 4
- Einfahrt zur McCarthy Road by Swissbear from a blog titled McCarthy
- - the end of McCarthy Road by Lobo from a blog titled Wrangell - Saint Elias National Park - Part 2 of 4
- Moose along McCarthy Road by 2jgstl from a blog titled Wrangell-St. Elias National park
- McCarthy Road by Wecusa from a blog titled Musk Ox Land
McCarthy-Kennicott, Alaska
Recorded July 18, 2000. McCarthy is 120 miles northeast of Cordova at the foot of the Wrangell Mountains. It is connected to the outside world via the McCarthy Road spur (58-mile gravel road) of the Edgerton Highway to Chitina, and must be passed through to reach Kennicott, a destination of tourists seeking access to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Kennicott is an abandoned mining camp in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. The camp and mines are now a National Historic Landmark District administered by the National Park Service.
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Vlog #31: Surviving the Infamous McCarthy Road in Alaska
A lot of people told us to not go with our trailer but we could not help ourselves but to try. After all, if we came all the way here and didn't make the drive, we would never forgive ourselves. The 60 mile road from Chitina to McCarthy is mostly dirt and gravel with lots of potholes and washboards. Depending on how much rain or if it has been recently graded, you can expect a huge range of conditions. We had it pretty easy on the way there but the story is totally different when we left a week later after a few days of rain.
Kennicott & Fireweed Mountain, McCarthy, Alaska (Storytelling)
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map)
• Hiking in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
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Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and national preserve managed by the National Park Service in south central Alaska. The park and preserve was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.[3] This protected area is included in an International Biosphere Reserve and is part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park and preserve form the largest area managed by the National Park Service in the United States by area with a total of 13,175,799 acres (20,587.186 sq mi; 53,320.57 km2), an expanse that could encapsulate a total of six Yellowstone National Parks.[4] The park includes a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the world. Wrangell–St. Elias borders on Canada's Kluane National Park and Reserve to the east and approaches the U.S. Glacier Bay National Park to the south. The chief distinction between park and preserve lands is that sport hunting is prohibited in the park and permitted in the preserve. In addition, 9,078,675 acres (3,674,009 ha) of the park are designated as the largest single wilderness in the United States.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Monument was initially designated on December 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter using the Antiquities Act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in Alaska. Establishment as a national park and preserve followed the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. The park, which is bigger than the country Switzerland, has long, extremely cold winters and a short summer season. It supports a variety of large mammals in an environment defined by relative land elevation. Plate tectonics are responsible for the uplift of the mountain ranges that cross the park. The park's extreme high point is Mount St. Elias at 18,008 feet (5,489 m), the second tallest mountain in both the United States and Canada. The park has been shaped by the competing forces of volcanism and glaciation. Mount Wrangell is an active volcano, one of several volcanoes in the western Wrangell Mountains. In the St. Elias Range Mount Churchill has erupted explosively within the past 2,000 years. The park's glacial features include Malaspina Glacier, the largest piedmont glacier in North America, Hubbard Glacier, the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, and Nabesna Glacier, the world's longest valley glacier. The Bagley Icefield covers much of the park's interior, which includes 60% of the permanently ice-covered terrain in Alaska. At the center of the park, the boomtown of Kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits of copper from 1903 to 1938, exposed by and in part incorporated into Kennicott Glacier. The mine buildings and mills, now abandoned, compose a National Historic Landmark district.
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Driving the road to McCarthy/Kennicott, Alaska.
You've heard stories about it. Perhaps you've even driven it yourself. An epic road trip in a very Alaskan sort of way. Check it out!
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McCarthy Road
Drive to the McCarthy Road from Chitina to McCarthy.
Alaska.org - Kennicott Glacier Lodge - McCarthy Alaska ...
8 hour drive or 90-minute flight from Anchorage. Step back in time and visit untraveled country just opening its doors to tourism. Stay at one of Alaska's most romantic lodges, and visit our most famous ghost town and largest national park, Wrangell St. Elias.
Edgerton Highway-McCarthy Road
Driving the Edgerton Highway McCarthy Road, Alaska
Kuskulana River Bridge, McCarthy Road Alaska
on our way to kennecott/McCarthy crossing the Kuskulana River river bridge originally built in 1910.
Alaska National Park Glaciers Status and Trends- McCarthy, AK
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The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.[1] It was created on August 25, 1916, by Congress through the National Park Service Organic Act[2] and is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The NPS is charged with a dual role of preserving the ecological and historical integrity of the places entrusted to its management, while also making them available and accessible for public use and enjoyment.
As of 2017, the NPS employs approximately 27,000 employees who oversee 417 units, of which 59 are designated national parks
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McCarthy at Wheeling | McCarthy | American Experience | PBS
Every year, on Lincoln's birthday, the Republican Party holds special Lincoln Day dinners. If available, a major politician will give an address. At the time, Joseph McCarthy was viewed as an inconsequential political player and was sent to address the Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The speech he delivered was anything but inconsequential - it was perhaps one of the most important speeches of that generation.
In his speech at Wheeling, McCarthy claims that there are 205 communists inside the State Department. People were so shocked they didn't immediately question whether this was true, or how this man would know. The truth was: McCarthy's campaign had begun.
Learn more about MCCARTHY, including where to watch the documentary:
McCarthy's Roots & The Kennicott Glacier
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map)
• Hiking in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
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Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and national preserve managed by the National Park Service in south central Alaska. The park and preserve was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.[3] This protected area is included in an International Biosphere Reserve and is part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park and preserve form the largest area managed by the National Park Service in the United States by area with a total of 13,175,799 acres (20,587.186 sq mi; 53,320.57 km2), an expanse that could encapsulate a total of six Yellowstone National Parks.[4] The park includes a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the world. Wrangell–St. Elias borders on Canada's Kluane National Park and Reserve to the east and approaches the U.S. Glacier Bay National Park to the south. The chief distinction between park and preserve lands is that sport hunting is prohibited in the park and permitted in the preserve. In addition, 9,078,675 acres (3,674,009 ha) of the park are designated as the largest single wilderness in the United States.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Monument was initially designated on December 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter using the Antiquities Act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in Alaska. Establishment as a national park and preserve followed the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. The park, which is bigger than the country Switzerland, has long, extremely cold winters and a short summer season. It supports a variety of large mammals in an environment defined by relative land elevation. Plate tectonics are responsible for the uplift of the mountain ranges that cross the park. The park's extreme high point is Mount St. Elias at 18,008 feet (5,489 m), the second tallest mountain in both the United States and Canada. The park has been shaped by the competing forces of volcanism and glaciation. Mount Wrangell is an active volcano, one of several volcanoes in the western Wrangell Mountains. In the St. Elias Range Mount Churchill has erupted explosively within the past 2,000 years. The park's glacial features include Malaspina Glacier, the largest piedmont glacier in North America, Hubbard Glacier, the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, and Nabesna Glacier, the world's longest valley glacier. The Bagley Icefield covers much of the park's interior, which includes 60% of the permanently ice-covered terrain in Alaska. At the center of the park, the boomtown of Kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits of copper from 1903 to 1938, exposed by and in part incorporated into Kennicott Glacier. The mine buildings and mills, now abandoned, compose a National Historic Landmark district.
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Golden Saloon, McCarthy, Alaska
Mt. Sanford Expedition, Alaska
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Devil's Deal | Edge of Alaska
Only the toughest survive in McCarthy Alaska.
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McCarthy Alaska flight seeing
Take off from McCarthy airstrip. What an awesome flight in a tough ass vintage plane.