Pattern by Nancy Bates in her book Knitting the National Parks

The seasons in Denali National Park come and go rather quickly. Well…three of them do anyway. The long cold winters of this Alaska park give way to a short spring where animals come out of hibernation and green begins to fill the landscape once covered in snow. A surprisingly warm (and slightly longer) summer beckons visitors from around the world while most of the park’s 400 types of flowering plants show off their colors. The short autumn brings swaths of orange across the tundra while bears feed on the last of the berries before hibernating once again and winter returns. Using nature inspired colors and fun-to-knit stitches, this design takes you on a four-season journey through the park from the wintery snowcovered landscape to snow-capped Denali Peakwith the other three seasons strategically and delightfully sandwiched in between.