New green visitors center debuts at Denali National Park

Thousands of visitors from all over the world will come this summer to the new Eielson Visitor Center, with a spectacular view of North America's highest mountain, deep inside Denali National Park and Preserve. With the LEED certification process now completed, the building is rated as platinum, the highest ever achieved in the National Park Service. Features contributing to the certification include skylights to bring natural light into the building and use of hydroelectric power and photovoltaic panels to provide the power for the building, according to a July 6 article in the Alaska Journal of Commerce.

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