However, when Wrangell-St. Elias National Park was established in 1980, Chitina once again found itself on the map, this time as the gateway to the massive piece of public land to the east.

Explore America’s last frontier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve Above the banks of Alaska’s mighty Copper River, past the old railroad town of Chitina, the pavement of the Edgerton ...