Visitors to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve head home from Labor Day festivities. A 13.2-million-acre (1.6-million-hectare) park created in 1980, Wrangell-St. Elias is primarily a wilderness area, with few campgrounds, amenities, or designated trails. It also contains the historic copper-mining town of Kennicott. Kennicott was once a boomtown, then a ghost town, and is now a popular tourist destination.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness," May 1994, National Geographic magazine)
