Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Alaska
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🌗 46% moon
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Open
Entrance
Free entry
Phone Outage
We are currently experiencing a disruption in our phone service at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Until further notice, please contact us via email for all inquiries and assistance. Email Contact: LACL_Information@nps.gov
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a land of stunning beauty. Volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes. Here, too, local people and culture still depend on the land and water. Venture into the park to become part of the wilderness.
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No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
The park and preserve are open 24 hours per day, seven days per week year round. However, visitor services are limited Labor Day through Memorial Day. Seasonal and temporary closures are listed by location on the Operating Hours & Seasons page.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 9076443626
✉ lacl_information@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec
Typical crowds: low
Weather now: ☁️ Overcast, 44°F
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☁️ 56°/45°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
0%
Feb
0%
Mar
0%
Apr
0%
May
6%
Jun
75%
Jul
100%
Aug
80%
Sep
24%
Oct
1%
Nov
0%
Dec
0%
Log a sky reading
Measured the sky with an SQM meter or app? Add your reading (16 = city glow … 22 = pristine). Opt in under “Travelers like you” to share it on the community leaderboard.
Things to do
Flight Seeing at Lake Clark
Remote Base Camping
Fly-In Bear Viewing Along the West Cook Inlet Coast
Go Fishing on Lake Clark
Go Fly Fishing at Tanalian Falls · It takes about an hour to get to the Falls. You can spend as much time you would like fishing.
Explore How Salmon Are Sustaining Southwest Alaska Communities
See the Wassillie Trefon Dena'ina Fish Cache
Discover Bristol Bay Fishing History
Campgrounds
NPS Priest Rock Public Use Cabin
Visitor centers
Port Alsworth Visitor Center
Accessibility
2 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Lake Clark National Park & Preserve — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
People & stories
Figures tied to Lake Clark National Park & Preserve — each spans a cross-park journey.
Frederica de Laguna
— Lacl, Alaska, ArcheologyJoe Thompson
— Lacl, Alaska, Ak PeopleKatie Trefon Wilson
— Subsistence, Alaska, WomenRichard L. Proenneke
— Lacl, Alaska, PersonPassport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Port Alsworth Visitor Center
Places to see
Iliamna Volcano
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Kijik Archeological District National Historic Landmark
Redoubt Volcano
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Learn more
Two in the Far North,” is a biographical novel written by the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” Margaret Murie. It’s a story of Margaret’s adventures in more northern parts of Alaska. So why is it in Lake Clark’s museum collection? Because this particular copy of the book was given to Dick Proenneke by Murie herself.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Science Education Grant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Science Education grant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2018 Science Education Grant recipients and their outreach projects.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Science Education Grant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Science Education grant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2019 Science Education Grant recipients and their outreach projects.
Each year nearly 300,000 volunteers across the National Park Service (NPS) donate more than 6.5 million hours of service, for a value of more than $185 million. Through their extraordinary work and dedication, these volunteers make an exceptional contribution to their parks and communities. We are pleased to congratulate the national recipients of the 2020 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Congratulations to the 2021 National Freeman Tilden Award recipients, Caitlin Campbell of Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and Lucas Wescott, Megan Richotte, Karen Evanoff, Kara Lewandowski, Anne Lattka, Tewosret Vaughn, and Monty Rogers of Lake Clark National Park & Preserve for their outstanding work in interpretation.
At a place local Dena’ina elders have named Dazq’en, or “A Fire is Burning," archaeology has uncovered a 4,000 year old hearth and one of the oldest dated sites on Lake Clark.
2020 Resource brief on ten years of monitoring data for bald eagles in southwest Alaska parks and the use of the Delphi technique to evaluate monitoring methods going forward.
The legacy of unseen footprints of the Dena’ina people has sustained the place now called Lake Clark Wilderness for centuries.
Ranger School
Park-grounded courses you can learn with the Ranger.
Brown Bear Survival Game
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Can You Identify Me?
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Carrying Capacity and Bears in Alaska
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How Clear Is the Water?
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How Many Salmon Are Enough?
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