Aniakchak National Monument – You Will Probably Never See It – Monument Monday

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Not all national parks and monuments in the USA get the same amount of love from tourists. So while the Great Smokey Mountains will get more than 9 million visitors a year Aniakchak National Monument will get more like 60 visitors. That is not because Aniakchak is uninteresting, it is just very remote.

Given its remote location and notoriously bad weather, Aniakchak is one of the least visited units of the National Park System. A vibrant reminder of Alaska’s location in the volcanically active “Ring of Fire,” the monument is home to an impressive six-mile wide, 2,500 ft. deep caldera formed during a massive eruption 3,500 years ago.

So that makes Aniakchak one of the greatest sites in the national park system that you will likely never see.