Landslides have prompted a partial closure of Alaska’s Denali National Park
The slide activity is speeding up as previously frozen soil thaws.

ANCHORAGE — A large swath of Denali National Park, one of Alaska’s premier travel destinations, has closed for the summer tourist season weeks early after heightened landslide activity from excessive thawing of a mountain slope made the park’s only access road unsafe.
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