Mountain Ranges

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is home to some of the grandest mountains on the continent, if not the world. The major mountain ranges found in the park are

  1. the Wrangell Mountain Range
  2. the St. Elias Mountain Range
  3. the Chugach Mountains Range and
  4. the Alaska Range.

The confluence of these 4 mountain ranges create a literal jumble of mountains, “mountains upon mountains”, some say. I’ve created photo galleries on the site of the major ranges in the park; the Alaska Range is excluded because, although it’s an enormous, extensive range, and home to Mt. McKinley and Mt. Foraker, the peaks of that range inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park boundaries are foothills compared to the tallest peaks of the other 3 ranges here.

Reflections in the morning, of fresh snow or termination dust on the Wrangell Mountains, near Mount Blackburn, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
Mount Blackburn, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

Wrangell Mountains

Mount Saint Elias glows in the soft after dusk alpenglow of the winter sky. Icy Bay in the foreground is littered with scattered icebergs, remnants from the many glaciers in the area. Mount Saint Elias and Icy Bay, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
Mount Saint Elias and Icy Bay, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

“St. Elias Mountains.

Rugged mountain peaks in the Upper Klu valley, Chugach Mountains Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Reflections near the Klu River in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Chugach Mountains.