Mount Eielson

Mount Eielson is a 5,802-foot summit in the Alaska Range in Denali National Park and Preserve, just east of the end of the Muldrow Glacier. Originally called Copper Mountain, it was renamed by the U.S. Congress on June 14, 1930, to honor aviator Carl Ben Eielson, whose pioneering flights helped open Alaska to early air travel. Eielson made the first airplane landing near the mountain when the park was still known as Mount McKinley National Park. The peak rises in a subarctic setting marked by long, severe winters, mild summers, and drainage northward into tributaries of the McKinley River within the Tanana River basin.

Cantwell, Alaska · United States