Denali Park Hotel to Close Sept. 1

The only hotel in Alaska’s Denali National Park will close Sept. 1 and be razed to make way for a new public science and learning center. The 103-room Denali National Park Hotel (tel. [800] 276-7234, $116 to $159 per night), a collection of barracks-like units rebuilt after a fire 30 years ago, is near the park entrance; numerous other hotel rooms are outside the park, said Nick Hardigg, the park’s chief of concessions management. He said the science center is to open in 2004.