September 17, 2025
There were a few other mountains in the “Denali Complex” that I could see as I drove about 30 miles further north on Hwy 3 from the Southern Viewpoint. They are mostly other large mountains, but I don’t know exactly which ones they are. And I found three more of Mt. Denali itself, taken from a more northerly viewpoint and which clearly shows the separation of the South and North peaks. Let me show those first:
And I used the digital camera with zoom lens to get a closer look at the two main peaks:
The rest of these are mountains further northeast of Mt. Denali itself. One of them is probably Mt. Silverthorne and another may be Mt. Mather. The Alaska Range continues for quite a distance, and the entire range is aligned from southwest to northeast.
Some photos were taken from the highway and some are from the North Viewpoint (but there was no sign there identifying them as there was at the South Viewpoint). I didn’t want to post these with the others as I presumed that most people were interested in the three main mountains.
The mountains in the Alaska Range southwest of Mt. Foraker are further away from the highway so I never even got a glimpse of them as I drove north. The road had trees on the side in many places which blocked my view, and of course I was mainly focused on driving.
The second one appears to be the same mountain on the left in the photo above it, but the road had turned left so I was looking right at it. They were taken 2 minutes apart.
These were all taken the same day as I took the main Denali photos. I would come back up here the next day but you will see in the next post that it was overcast and I couldn’t see these mountains at all.
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