Misty Fjords National Monument

Misty Fjords National Monument is a vast protected wilderness in southeastern Alaska, administered within the Tongass National Forest and valued as one of the United States' largest coastal wild areas. Its granite landscape, formed roughly 50 to 70 million years ago and later carved by glaciers, features deep sea-filled fjords, sheer valley walls, rugged mountains, and remnant glaciers. The monument also contains rich temperate rainforest with western hemlock, Sitka spruce, and western red cedar, supporting bears, salmon, whales, mountain goats, and deer. Created through major Alaska land policy decisions in 1978 and 1980, it also preserves a remote region noted in recorded European exploration by George Vancouver in 1793.

Hyder, Alaska · United States