The road is gone, victim of the persistent landslide at Mile 45.4 on Polychrome Pass, called Pretty Rocks. Park employees visited the site last week and determined that since maintenance stopped ...

Dave Schirokauer, Denali National Park and Preserve’s science and resources team manager, and two visitors survey the landslide damage on July 21, 2022, at the park’s Pretty Rocks site.

A landslide caused by melting permafrost has closed the only road in Alaska’s Denali National Park. The slow-moving Pretty Rocks Landslide sits halfway along the 92-mile road that winds across ...

The NPS said that the idyllically named Pretty Rocks Landslide, a known landslide the park’s road traverses en route to Polychrome Overlook, had become too dangerous for travel.

The Pretty Rocks Landslide is located around Mile 45 of the highway has required increasing maintenance in recent years because it is changing rapidly due to climate change, ...

The Pretty Rocks landslide viewed from the east in May 2023. (Dan Bross/KUAC) Work is scheduled to resume this month on a bridge that will cross a slumping stretch of the road into Denali National ...

Think of the Pretty Rocks Landslide as an ice cream sandwich. A new 475-foot bridge will span the gooey ice cream in the center, anchored on the east and west ...

A shuttle bus passes the Pretty Rocks site in Denali National Park, Alaska, U.S., July 21, 2020. ... The landslide there used to be gradual and measured in inches per year, ...

The Pretty Rocks Landslide intersects Denali Park Road near its midpoint at Mile 45.4, rendering the remaining 47 miles of roadway impassable for the past two tourist seasons.

The Pretty Rocks Landslide intersects Denali Park Road near its midpoint at Mile 45.4, rendering the remaining 47 miles of roadway impassable for the past two tourist seasons.

The slow-moving Pretty Rocks Landslide sits halfway along the 92-mile road that winds across the 6-million acre park, home to the highest mountain peak in North America.