Gallery: 'Street View' of Denali National Park
Toklat Glacier in 1916
The east fork of the Toklat glacier in Denali National Park 1916.
Toklat Glacier Today
The east fork of the Toklat glacier in 2011.
Teklanika River Glacier in 1919
Glacier at head of East Fork Teklanika River in Denali National Park, Alaska in August of 1919.
Teklanika River Glacier Today
Glacier at head of East Fork Teklanika River in Denali National Park in August 2004, revealing nearly a century of retreat.
Denali Road View
In the summer of 2013, Geologist Ron Karpilo mounted four GoPro cameras to his car to provide a "Street View" of Denali's Park Road. Karpilo hopes to repeat the process over the years to monitor changes in the park.
Denali Road Bus
Ron Karpilo's 'Denali Street View' project yieled almost a million photographs, including this one of a park bus approaching.
Gorgeous Denali
Beautiful views along Denali's only road.
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Denali Views
Karpilo mounted his cameras at bus-window height to mimic the views visitors to the park see out the windows.
Denali Road
The park road is 92 miles long and mostly unpaved.
Denali Camera Mount
Geologist Ron Karpilo adjusts a GoPro camera mounted on his Subaru. Karpilo photographed every inch of Denali's only road in the summer of 2013 to provide a baseline for environmental monitoring of the park.
Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior. She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.