With Pretty Rocks bridge completed, full road use in Alaska’s Denali National Park set to resume

By: Yereth Rosen

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: September 4, 2026

Words: 705

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Visitors to Denali National Park will be able to motor over the full park road starting next year for the first time since a landslide made the route impassable in the late summer of 2021, the National Park Service said Thursday.

Construction crews have completed a 475-foot-long bridge that allows vehicles to avoid an ongoing thaw-induced slide at a spot called Pretty Rocks, located about midway along …

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