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Denali National Park's Annual 'Road Lottery' Offers Winners Glimpse Of Alaskan Wilderness
Resume![In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2016, sightseeing buses and tourists are seen at a pullout popular for taking in views of North America's tallest peak, Denali, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (Becky Bohrer/AP)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/0914_denali-1000x690.jpg)
Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve opens its only road to a select number of visitors Friday. For four days each year, Denali's "road lottery" allows a small number of people to drive the 92-mile Denali Park Road in their own vehicle on their one assigned day.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Dan Irelan, a supervisory park ranger at Denali National Park & Preserve, about the road lottery and what makes Denali unique in the National Park System.
This segment aired on September 14, 2018.