At 20,310 feet, Denali is the highest peak in North America — in which U.S. national park is it located?
Denali National Park
The answer was Denali National Park. Here's the why, the decoys, and the source trail.
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Denali stands at 20,310 feet within Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The park covers over 6 million acres of wild landscape, making it larger than the state of New Hampshire.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America at 20,310 feet above sea level.
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- Glacier Bay National Park - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- Denali National Park - correct answer.
- Katmai National Park - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
Denali National Park is the one to remember. Denali stands at 20,310 feet within Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Measured from base to summit, Denali rises about 18,000 feet from its base — a greater vertical rise than Mount Everest, which sits on the already-elevated Tibetan Plateau.
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Sources: National Park Service