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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
5 miles (8 km) NE of McCarthy.
Transport map F3. * 50.
n Visitors’ Center at the old
General Store, 822-5234. 8 7
0 ®  informal camping
along the Root Glacier Trail.
∑ nps.gov/wrst
Transport
~ scheduled or charter flight
. Concentration/Crusher Mill
In Kennicott’s heyday, low-grade ore was processed in the mill, which is to McCarthy, then 5 miles (8 km)
the most striking building in the town. Remnants of the tramways that on foot or by shuttle bus.
@ Glennallen to McCarthy.
brought ore from the Bonanza and Jumbo Mines to the mill are still visible.
. Ammonia Leaching Plant
Here, copper carbonates were
extracted from treated ore that had
passed through the crusher mill.

Plan of the site
Bonanza Tramway Key
Jumbo Minor road
Tramway The General Manager’s Office
Trail to Illustrated area
Bonanza &
Jumbo Mines National Creek East Bunk House
Hospital
Concentration/
Workers’ Crusher Mill
Cottages National Creek Bunk House Kennicott Glacier
Silk Stocking Row Lodge

Root Glacier McCarthy
Trail Old Wagon Road 5 miles (8km)
Power House
0 meters 100 Ammonia West Bunk House
Leaching Plant
0 yards 100
Morning view of the scenic mountains at Tok Cut-Off

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