Wrangell Mountains

Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park is a park for wilderness-oriented activities. Travel services and facilities are limited. This is an adventure for the fans of untouched nature and strenuous hiking in very remote areas. Ability of map-and compass navigation are essential. Besides of a great number of hiking routes there are opportunities for mountaineering: the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States - Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford with the elevation over 16,000 feet – are located here. Other peaks are equally challenging. Some have never been climbed.

Wrangell Mountains are actually form the one range with the St. Elias Mountains. However, the Wrangell Mountains emerge as a distinct mountain system. It is quite compact and has a rounded shape, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford.

The Wrangell Mountains lies close to Canadian border, and located just to the northwest of the Saint Elias Mountains and northeast of the Chugach Mountains, which are along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska.

The range takes its name from Mount Wrangell, which is one of the largest volcanoes in the world, and the only presently active volcano in the range.

 

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