THE DENALI BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Alaska Range setting.
Denali Borough has 12,639.7 square miles of land in Alaska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Denali Borough: Alaska Range, Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands, Interior Bottomlands.
Very high, steep mountains carry extensive icefields, glaciers and rocky slopes. Vegetation is limited in the highest and most exposed portions of the Alaska Range.
Regional context: Alaska Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Denali Borough intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Alaska Range62.1%
- Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands21.5%
- Interior Bottomlands16.4%
Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands in Denali Borough
Interior Alaska's lowlands and uplands form a varied mosaic of spruce, hardwoods and wet areas. Local relief, surface water and ground conditions create substantial differences across this broad inland region.
Read the regional source ↗Interior Bottomlands in Denali Borough
Nearly level river bottomlands contain oxbow lakes, thaw lakes and wet areas. Spruce and hardwood stands mix with shrub thickets along interior Alaska's larger rivers.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Denali Borough
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Denali Borough, including Healy, Denali Park, Cantwell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Denali Borough by land and water
The Census records 26.8 square miles of water within Denali Borough, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Denali Borough’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Denali Borough has 18.4 times the land area of nearby Healy CDP (686.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fairbanks North Star Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

