Gallery: 'Street View' of Denali National Park

Toklat Glacier in 1916

Toklat Glacier in Denali

(Image credit: Stephen R. Capps/U.S. Geological Survey)

The east fork of the Toklat glacier in Denali National Park 1916.

Toklat Glacier Today

East fork of the Toklat Glacier

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

The east fork of the Toklat glacier in 2011.

Teklanika River Glacier in 1919

Teklanika glacier in Denali

(Image credit: Stephen R. Capps/U.S. Geological Survey)

Glacier at head of East Fork Teklanika River in Denali National Park, Alaska in August of 1919.

Teklanika River Glacier Today

Teklanika glacier in Denali

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

Glacier at head of East Fork Teklanika River in Denali National Park in August 2004, revealing nearly a century of retreat.

Denali Road View

Google street view of Denali

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

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

Denali street view

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

Ron Karpilo's 'Denali Street View' project yieled almost a million photographs, including this one of a park bus approaching.

Gorgeous Denali

Denali street view

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

Beautiful views along Denali's only road.

Denali Views

Denali park view

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

Karpilo mounted his cameras at bus-window height to mimic the views visitors to the park see out the windows.

Denali Road

Denali national park road

(Image credit: Ron Karpilo, one-time use only)

The park road is 92 miles long and mostly unpaved.

Denali Camera Mount

Denali national park photograph

(Image credit: Lacy Karpilo, one-time use only)

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
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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.