Travel restrictions mean more deals for Alaskans from local tourism businesses

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the nation’s largest, also is on the road system, but it’s a long drive. First, from Anchorage, there’s the five-hour drive past Palmer, through the Matanuska Valley to Chitina, on the banks of the Copper River. Then you take your time, poking along at 30 or 35 miles per hour for the last 60 miles on the “McCarthy Road.”