Greg Dudgeon was named the Superintendent of Mount Rainier National Park in June of 2021. Previously, Dudgeon served as acting deputy regional director overseeing the management of 15 national parks, preserves, monuments and national historical parks in Alaska.

Dudgeon began working with the NPS in 1983 as a volunteer with a whale biologist at Glacier Bay National Park where they photographed the flukes of humpback whales from an 18-foot skiff. He went on to work as a seasonal biological technician, an interpretive ranger, and commissioned ranger. In 1996 Dudgeon was selected as the chief ranger for Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. In 1998 he was asked to serve as chief ranger at Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve as well.

From 2001 through 2003 Dudgeon was superintendent of Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments until he returned to Alaska as the superintendent of Sitka National Historical Park. During his tenure, Dudgeon worked with the Indigenous Tlingit people in observations of several significant historic events, most notably the 200th anniversary of Dawootle Tlein (the “Great Battle”) between Tlingit forebearers and Russian fur traders. In 2007 Dudgeon became superintendent of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, where he served until taking on his current acting assignment. Together, the two parks encompass 11 million acres – seven million of which are designated wilderness.

Dudgeon was raised in northwest Ohio and southern California. He and his wife Susan, along with retired sled dogs Lucor and Solace (both former “canine rangers” from Denali National Park’s working sled dog kennel) plan to reside in one of Mount Rainier’s gateway communities.