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Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Maps for Your Phone, Offline

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Looking for a map app for Wrangell-St. Elias? Cartahaven lists the free National Park Service park map as a GeoPDF. Download it once, open it offline, and your phone's GPS shows where you are, even with no cell signal.

What the free park map covers

The National Park Service publishes the official Wrangell-St. Elias park map. The park says it is free at its visitor centers and ranger stations. The park lists visitor centers at Copper Center and Kennecott, and ranger stations at Slana and Chitina.

Our listing is the NPS park map in GeoPDF form, so it works with GPS on your phone. It is free to download.

How to use it offline

  1. Open the park map page and download the map while you have Wi-Fi.
  2. Open it in the Cartahaven app for Android or iPhone.
  3. Turn on location. Your position shows on the map even in airplane mode.
  4. Test it at home before you leave. The park is remote, so don't count on signal.

Not sure a PDF is GPS-ready? Try the GeoPDF checker. New to offline maps? Read GeoPDF maps offline on your phone.

What the park also recommends

The park's own maps page points to other tools. These come from the park, not from us:

  • An interactive Hunting, Fishing and Backcountry Planning Map.
  • Hunt Area Maps.
  • A Land Status Map (PDF). This matters because about 750,000 acres inside the park's external boundaries are not federal land.
  • USGS 1:63,360 quadrangles for backcountry travel.

Read them on the park's maps page before you go. For route detail, see backcountry trip planning with USGS topo maps.

Hunting in Alaska? Unit boundaries matter. See our guide to Alaska game management units.

Before you go

A park map shows the big picture: roads, main features and visitor sites. It is not a detailed topo, so add one for backcountry trips and check with the park for current conditions and rules. Last checked November 13, 2026.