{"id":3077,"date":"2021-07-22T06:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2021-07-22T06:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:34:50","slug":"the-wrangell-st-elias-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/the-wrangell-st-elias-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrangell St. Elias National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBZCF8uE0mE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The Pilot&#8217;s Paradise<\/h2>\n<p>The Wrangell St. Elias National Park (often simply referred to as &#8220;The Wrangells&#8221;) is one of the largest national parks in the United States.\u00a0 Closely bordering Canada and enjoying large amounts of snow blowing in from the Gulf of Alaska each winter, the park has towering mountains and massive glaciers larger than many counties in the lower 48.<\/p>\n<h3>What makes it so special<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3071\" src=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DJI_0152-2-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>There is no shortage of places to land in the National Park and National Preserve.\u00a0 With tons of miles-long glaciers feeding massive rivers, there are plenty of gravel bars, alpine strips, and just plain landable tundra with beautiful views everywhere you look.\u00a0 The park offers much more than just camping locations.\u00a0 Activities in and around the park include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hiking<\/li>\n<li>Fat biking<\/li>\n<li>Rafting<\/li>\n<li>Panning for gold<\/li>\n<li>Fishing \/ hunting<\/li>\n<li>Exploring historic mining ruins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How long can you spend here?<\/h3>\n<p>Well it doesn&#8217;t get old staying in the park service&#8217;s first come first served public use cabins.\u00a0 The cabins come complete with wood stoves to keep warm and screened windows to keep out Alaska&#8217;s favorite insect (the mosquito).\u00a0 You can easily spend months here flying the park and not see it all.\u00a0 The ample camping spots and public use cabins make it a perfect destination to spend an entire <a href=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/flight-training\/\">Bush Pilot Training Course<\/a> duration flying in the park.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3080\" src=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_6581-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>What type of flying is there?<\/h3>\n<p>Expect to fly over many glaciers, land on gravels bars, riverbanks, tundra, and some high altitude strips (cloud ceiling permitting).\u00a0 You&#8217;ll experience a great mix of wind, short and long strips (some greater than 1,000&#8242;), density altitude changes, and some rougher terrain (some of the strips can be pretty rough after the rains).\u00a0 This location is great for anyone who feels comfortable at <a href=\"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/flight-training\/\">Level 1<\/a> or higher.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pilot&#8217;s Paradise The Wrangell St. Elias National Park (often simply referred to as &#8220;The Wrangells&#8221;) is one of the largest national parks in the United States.\u00a0 Closely bordering Canada and enjoying large amounts of snow blowing in from the Gulf of Alaska each winter, the park has towering mountains and massive glaciers larger than many counties in the lower 48. What makes it so special There is no shortage of places to land in the National Park and National Preserve.\u00a0 With tons of miles-long glaciers feeding massive rivers, there are plenty of gravel bars, alpine strips, and just plain landable tundra with beautiful views everywhere you look.\u00a0 The park offers much more than just camping locations.\u00a0 Activities in and around the park include: Hiking Fat biking Rafting Panning for gold Fishing \/ hunting Exploring historic mining ruins How long can you spend here? Well it doesn&#8217;t get old staying in the park service&#8217;s first come first served public use cabins.\u00a0 The cabins come complete with wood stoves to keep warm and screened windows to keep out Alaska&#8217;s favorite insect (the mosquito).\u00a0 You can easily spend months here flying the park and not see it all.\u00a0 The ample camping spots and public use cabins make it a perfect destination to spend an entire Bush Pilot Training Course duration flying in the park. What type of flying is there? Expect to fly over many glaciers, land on gravels bars, riverbanks, tundra, and some high altitude strips (cloud ceiling permitting).\u00a0 You&#8217;ll experience a great mix of wind, short and long strips (some greater than 1,000&#8242;), density altitude changes, and some rougher terrain (some of the strips can be pretty rough after the rains).\u00a0 This location is great for anyone who feels comfortable at Level 1 or higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flight-training","tag-wrangells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly8ma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}