Alaska National Parks Collection: Eight Complete Guides with History, Highlights, and Easy and Moderate One- to Three-Day Adventures

Eight Alaska parks, eight guides, one download. From the Denali Park Road to the bears of Brooks Falls and the glaciers of Glacier Bay, it plans short visits at an easy or moderate pace, built around the buses, boats, and small planes that reach each park.

What's inside

• Eight guides, to Denali, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, and Wrangell–St. Elias, each with its own cover art, seven chapters, maps, photographs, and indexes
• 48 itineraries: an easy and a moderate plan per park for one, two, and three days, each day with a backup plan for weather
• History and highlights for every park, from the Arrigetch Peaks to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and the Kennecott mill town
• Eight wildlife chapters with 112 animal profiles, each with a photograph and notes on where and when to look
• Trip planning for seasons, flights and boats, lodging, bears, accessibility, and safety
• 257 photographs and 35 orientation maps placed beside the passages they illustrate

What you'll receive

• EPUB ebook (Alaska_National_Parks_Collection_Brian_D_Russ.epub, about 20 MB) for Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and most e-reader apps. Kindle readers can send it to their library with Amazon's Send to Kindle.
• PDF (Alaska_National_Parks_Collection_Brian_D_Russ.pdf, 677 pages including the cover, about 104 MB) for any computer or tablet, and for printing pages. It opens on the illustrated cover, and its bookmarks jump to each park and chapter.

Your download link arrives by email right after purchase.

Edition

First edition of the collection, October 2026, collecting the October 2026 editions of all eight guides. Research completed October 17 and 18, 2026; most guides plan for summer 2027. Flights, boats, and schedules change, so check each park's current alerts and your operators before you travel.

About the author

Brian D. Russ lives in Northern California and writes Brian Russ's Guide to National Parks, a series of practical, independent guides to America's national parks.

Pick a park, and keep a spare day for the weather.

This is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service.