What is the current update on the Denali Road construction?

[Midwest Sunseeker]

Does anyone have current construction information on how far the buses can go in Denali national park due to the landslide? Will any additional road be open as the summer progresses?  Is there even a possibility of ever seeing the mountain? Thank you for sharing.

[quillwercruisers]

Here is their website for more info:

https://www.nps.gov/dena/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

[quack2]

Given the nature of the closure (landslide), I doubt there will be incremental openings of the road past Mile 43.  When the fix is in place, hopefully Summer 2024, the entire road will reopen.

[dfilpus]

1 hour ago, Midwest Sunseeker said:

Does anyone have current construction information on how far the buses can go in Denali national park due to the landslide? Will any additional road be open as the summer progresses?  Is there even a possibility of ever seeing the mountain? Thank you for sharing.

If the mountain is not shrouded with clouds, you can see the mountain along the road well before Mile 43. We had excellent views of the mountain from the train from Anchorage to Denali. We were lucky that the mountain was out both days.

[wolfie11]

There is a view from around Mile 8.

[Midwest Sunseeker]

Thank you.  I did not know that.  I know that you have only a 30% chance of seeing it come out even if you could go to the end of the road.  Alaska is so beautiful every where you look. 

[AKStafford]

If not covered in clouds, you can see Denali from the South Denali Viewpoint at Mile 135 of the Parks Highway. It can even be seen from Anchorage...

[GoDucksNation]

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This was our view last August

[Northern Aurora]

According to the NPS website they expect the closure of the single road into the park to remain in effect through the summer of 2024.  Our local news paper has a reporter stationed year around in the Healy/Denali area and she has reported that the road may not be open until 2025.  

 

There are views of Denali from the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, so anyone visiting the Museum of the North should look for it out of the windows just across from the entrance and beside the museum store.

 

There are great views of Denali at Mary's McKinley View Lodge (mile 134.5 of the George Parks Hwy) and there are some pullouts/view areas just north of that lodge.  And there are views from the Princess McKinley Lodge as already noted.

[Midwest Sunseeker]

Thank you and the other people who have commented.  We are thinking of traveling with HAL riding the train from Whittier to their lodge at Denali and then Fairbanks. Sounds like we might see it after all if clear weather.  I’m sure we will go back in a few years if we remain physically healthy.