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Cantwell (Yidateni Na’ [3] in Ahtna Athabascan) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 200. Cantwell is the western terminus of the Denali Highway. Once an Alaska Railroad flag stop at the junction with the Denali Highway, it was founded off the Parks ...
Denali Highway (Alaska Route 8) is a lightly traveled, mostly gravel highway in the U.S. state of Alaska. It leads from Paxson on the Richardson Highway to Cantwell on the Parks Highway . Opened in 1957, it was the first road access to Denali National Park .
The following 47 pages use this file: Alpha Ridge, Alaska; Anderson, Alaska; Avalanche Spire; Buzzard Creek (Alaska) Cantwell, Alaska; Castle Rock (Alaskan mountain)
Cantwell Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The 3-mile (4.8 km) long glacier originates from the crest of the Alaska Range in the eastern part of the park, giving rise to Cantwell Creek. [1] [2] [3] Cantwell Glacier and Cantwell Creek are named for Yukon Valley explorer John C. Cantwell. [4]
Park map Denali National Park and Preserve includes the central, highest portion of the Alaska Range , together with many of the glaciers and glacial valleys running southwards out of the range. To the north the park and preserve encompass the valleys of the McKinley , Toklat , and Foraker Rivers, as well as the Kantishna and Wyoming Hills.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of North America. Denali is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of Alaska.
He named it the Cantwell River after Lieutenant John C. Cantwell, of the Revenue Cutter Service, who had explored the Kobuk River region in 1884–85. [1] In 1898, members of the United States Geological Survey reported that people living along the river called it Tutlut. However, the local Tanana name was spelled Nenana on a later map. [1]
Broad Pass is an approximately 15-mile long [note 1] gap in the Alaska Range. It is a highway corridor for the Parks Highway and is roughly halfway between Fairbanks and Anchorage. The town of Cantwell is located at its northern boundary. It separates the Alaska Range to the west and an unnamed subrange to the east.