Kennecott Mines: Within 35 years ... It’s an easy 4-mile round-trip jaunt out to one of Alaska’s most accessible glaciers. Even from a distance, you can look for the blue pools and streams ...

Kennicott's sister village, reports the Express. Between these two locations, visitors can discover old mining structures overlooking a glacier-carved valley and embark on one of Alaska's most ...

Kennecott offers a mix of ghost-town dwellings ... either take a boat or fly in from Seattle or Juneau on Alaska Airlines. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve covers 13.2 million ...

When you need a break from the adrenaline, visit the park’s most famous historic artifact: the Kennecott Mine National Historic Landmark. This mine is the reason anything exists at all in this corner ...

Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine had the third ... The mine, located about 105 miles north of the Arctic Circle in northwest ...

who died on an expedition to Alaska in 1866). Everything to build the Bonanza Mine, which is nearly 4,000 feet above Kennecott, was shipped from Seattle to Valdez and later Cordova, then hauled in ...

Every day, these giant dump trucks move millions of pounds of rock at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine. As you look at the dump trucks, hauling ore out of the largest open pit copper mine in the ...