Kluane National Park, Alaska - UNESCO World Heritage Site

Place: Kluane National Park

Weather: Mainly sunny, 46/74F

Route: From Anchorage 609 miles east on AK-1 N, AK-2 S, Yukon 1 E.

Significance: It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that also includes Wrangell-St. Elias, Glacier Bay, and Tashenshini-Alsek National Parks, some of which are in Canada and some in Alaska.  Kluane is in the Yukon Territory - it contains Canada's highest peak. You can watch glaciers calve into the Alsek River.  It also contains a very large population of Grizzly bears and many of the same mammals that one would see in Denali.

Websites: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Parks Canada.

Images:

Glaciers meeting at the base of the mountain range (from viator.com)

Kathleen Lake (from travelyukon.com)