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Human Development and Impacts at Wonder Lake: 1940-2012

A photo pair showing Human Development and Impacts at Wonder Lake: 1940-2012

This photo pair shows the Wonder Lake Ranger Station. Once the Park Road reached Kantishna, and due to changes of the park boundary in 1932, there was a need for a ranger presence in the west end of the park. The ranger station was built in 1939 on the site of an abandoned gravel pit by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps. In the 2010 photo, at the left, you can also see small cabins were added (in the 1960s) near the station for housing employees. You may notice differences in the appearance of the foundation between photographs. That is because in 1999 the station was lifted and moved to the side to allow for repairs to its foundation which had been built on a melting ice lens. Once the repairs were made, the ranger station was placed right back in the same location on its new, and more stable, foundation.

Original year: 1940; Rephoto year: 2012

U.S. National Park Service

Photos and photo pairs are pre-approved for educational use ONLY. To use them in educational products, credit them the same way as they are credited on the website, Photo Credit: Original photographer: Unknown (Denali NP&P Museum Coll. 6-6.5); Rephoto photographer: R.D. Karpilo. For any other use beyond education, contact Denali National Park and Preserve for additional copyright information on specific images of interest.

Original photographer: Unknown (Denali NP&P Museum Coll. 6-6.5); Rephoto photographer: R.D. Karpilo

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Denali National Park and Preserve, Code: DENA

Wonder Lake, Alaska Range mountains, Alaska
Latitude: 63.490298, Longitude: -150.8716

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Latitude: 63.3182792663574, Longitude: -150.602905273438

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