This is a photo of Polychrome Pass located about 40 miles into Denali National Park on the Park Road looking south across the Savage River bed. The multi-colored mountains are uniquely beautiful. The pass is part of the Alaska Mountain Range which runs east-west across the southern border of the park. Some of the higher mountain in the range can be seen in the background with snow caps. 20,300 ft high Mt Denali, the highest mountain in North America, is part of the Alaska Mountain Range about 50 miles further west.
The Park Road is the only road into Denali, running from the entrance off Alaska Rt 3 in the east, 92 miles west to a tune of the 20th century gold mining settlement known as Kantishna. The original Kantishna Roadhouse and a couple of other settlement buildings are now part of a native American owned cabin resort open about 6 months of the year (limited by extreme winter weather conditions). There also is a ranger station in the area. Traffic on the Park Road is restricted mainly to park buses that drop-off and pick-up hikers and campers. One segment of the Park Road in the Polychrome Pass area is subject to frequent landslides. Over the next few years a 500 ft bridge will be built across that slide-prone area.
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