The interior is Alaska’s heart. Relatively few towns and roads interrupt this vast wilderness of mountains, rivers, forests, and tundra, but the presence of Fairbanks and Denali National Park open the Interior to the visitors.

The interior remains a raw wild land dotted by a few villages whose residents live close to the land. It is this wildness that draws most visitors, whether to behold Mount McKinley, watch grizzly bears, camp in Denali National Park, or canoe pristine rivers.

While it includes features reminiscent of the state’s coastal areas, such as brawny mountains and massive glaciers, the region also offers distinctive traits. Taiga covers mush of the northern Interior. The Interior also features enormous expanses of tundra.