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Denali

6,190 m20,308 ft

Prominence: 6,155 m20,194 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -21°FAreas of blowing snow · Wind 55 mph S

Denali is a 6,190 m (20,308 ft) mountain in the Alaska Range, Alaska, United States.

All facts

Elevation: 6,190 m · 20,308 ft
Range: Alaska Range
Region: Alaska, United States
Protected area: Denali National Park
Official name: Mount McKinley
Coordinates: 63.0692° N, 151.0065° W

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3D map

Denali 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Denali terrain and contours

200 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

Denali elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Denali weather

Today · Areas of blowing snow · -21 / -18°F (-29 / -28°C) · 98% chance of precipitation · Wind 45–55 mph SW

Denali forecast for the summit, about 5,791 m.

Today-21°-18°98%45–55 mph SW
Sat-18°-10°100%50–55 mph S
Sun-23°-13°100%20–35 mph W
Mon-15°-6°100%40–45 mph W
Tue-15°-5°24%20–35 mph SW
Wed-17°-4°50%30 mph SW
Thu-17°-8°62%30 mph SW

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Denali

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Denali, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
Camp 4 (High Camp)
2.6 km WNW · +2 more within 3.5 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Camp 4 (High Camp)Campsite	2.6 km WNW
Campsite	2.7 km WNW
14,000' CampCampsite	3.5 km W

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

27.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

15.4%

Steep, 30–45°

27.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

29.6%

Steeper than 30°: 57.2% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 4,643 m low point 1,524 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 98.1%Bare rock / sparse 1.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km, measured from the Denali summit.

Summit list 6

1Archdeacons Tower5,911 m 0.8 km NW
2North Peak5,913 m 3.1 km N
3Kahiltna Peaks4,063 m 6.1 km SW
4Jeffery Point2,458 m 8.6 km NW
5Mount Koven3,701 m 9.1 km NE
6Peak 113003,445 m 9.9 km SE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 97 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Caribou36
Moose21
Brown Bear19
Arctic Ground Squirrel14
Thinhorn Sheep13
Willow Ptarmigan11

Where it sits

Where Denali sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount HayesPeak · 4,216 m225 km ENE

Downloads

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

22 m low This 3D map reads 6,168 m at the summit; the official height is 6,190 m.

Why: a 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,190 m	—
USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page)	6,168 m	-22 m
Copernicus GLO-30	6,180 m	-10 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,169 m	-21 m

Data sources

Terrain: U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Protected area: USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Denali

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

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