The Incredible Alaska Park You’ll Want To Visit Over And Over Again
By Catherine Armstrong|Published August 16, 2018
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Catherine Armstrong
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Writer, editor and researcher with a passion for exploring new places. Catherine loves local bookstores, independent films, and spending time with her family, including Gus the golden retriever, who is a very good boy.
Alaska is an adventurer’s paradise, with millions of acres of land, but fewer than 740,000 residents. If you want to get far away from the hustle and bustle of the lower 48, and surround yourself with the beauty of nature, this is where you want to live. While most of Alaska is pretty rugged, there’s one place that’s especially remote and wild. Check out Wood-Tikchik State Park.
Wood-Tikchik is Alaska's largest state park, encompassing more than 1.6 million acres. It's a wild, rugged place, and the most remote state park in the entire United States.
There are 12 glacial lakes inside the park, ranging in size from 15 to 45 miles long. They're all very deep — Lake Nuyakuk is more than 940 feet deep, and even the most shallow lake — Lake Aleknagik — is 342 feet deep.
You'll likely pull some monster fish out of these waters. From rainbows to browns to salmon, if you're an enthusiastic angler, you'll be in heaven at Wood-Tikchik State Park.
If wildlife photography is your passion, you'll find plenty of subjects to shoot. In addition to bears, you might run across foxes, caribou, moose, wolverines, marmots, porcupines, and more.
