The Copper river is home to a lot of salmon, but it was named the Copper River for a reason. When the Copper River was discovered, Americans found a lot of Copper next to here, and they built a mine and they profited very well and were successful.
Wrangell St. Elias is the biggest national park in America at 13 million acres. Six Yellowstones could fit inside of it.
Wrangell St. Elias has 1/4 of all of the glaciers in North America.
Mt. St Elias is the 2nd tallest mountain is USA
Wrangell St. Elias is home to many wildlife that has never seen humans before
The Wrangell range has 9 of the 16 highest peaks in America and 4 of them above 16,000 feet.
In July, the temperature in Wrangell St. Elias can get to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, the record high is 89 degrees
The lowest average temperature was -11 in January and the record low in a day is -55
On October 18th, 1867, the United States Secretary of state, William H. Seward purchased Russia's land (modern day Alaska) from Russia for about $7,200,000, or you could say that it was for every acre purchased America paid two cents
One quarter of America's oil comes from Alaska
Wrangell St. Elias became officially a park on December 2, 1980
Mt. St. Elias stands tall at 18,008 feet high
Some of the richest deposits of copper and gold were discovered here.
In the town of Kennecott, a big natural attraction to tourists was once the center of activity for several productive copper mines in the early 1900s.
The best year for production, 1916, the five mines in Wrangell St. Elias mined copper valued at 32.4 million dollars.