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Alatna River Float and Tundra Walk

Alatna River Float and Tundra Walk

📍 Allakaket, Alaska (fly-in access)
Moderate 📏 5.0 Point-to-Point

The Alatna River valley in the southern Brooks Range portion of Gates of the Arctic offers some of the most accessible b…

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Arrigetch Peaks Approach

Arrigetch Peaks Approach

📍 Arrigetch Creek, Alaska (fly-in)
Strenuous 📏 12.0 Out-and-Back

The Arrigetch Peaks are among the most dramatic rock formations in Alaska -- a cluster of sheer granite spires rising fr…

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Baird Mountains Traverse

Baird Mountains Traverse

📍 Kobuk Valley National Park, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 8.0 cross-country

The Baird Mountains form the northern wall of Kobuk Valley, an ancient range of sharply folded Paleozoic sedimentary and…

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Bartlett River Trail

Bartlett River Trail

📍 Glacier Bay Lodge, Gustavus
Moderate 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

Bartlett River Trail is the longest maintained trail in Glacier Bay National Park, departing from near the visitor cente…

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Bonanza Mine Trail

Bonanza Mine Trail

📍 Kennicott, Wrangell-St. Elias
Strenuous 📏 8.8 Out-and-Back

Bonanza Mine Trail climbs 3,800 feet from the historic Kennicott Mines complex to the abandoned Bonanza copper mine at 7…

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Byers Lake Loop

Byers Lake Loop

📍 Talkeetna, AK
Easy 📏 4.9 Loop

The Byers Lake Loop circles one of Denali State Park's most scenic and accessible lakes, offering an easy flat circ…

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Chilikadrotna River Bar Route

Chilikadrotna River Bar Route

📍 Chilikadrotna River, Alaska (fly-in)
Moderate 📏 6.0 Point-to-Point

The Chilikadrotna River is a Wild and Scenic River flowing through the most remote interior of Lake Clark National Park,…

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Coastal Glacier Viewpoint

Coastal Glacier Viewpoint

📍 Kenai Fjords National Park, Northwestern Fjord, Alaska
Moderate 📏 2.0 Out-and-Back

The Coastal Glacier Viewpoint is accessible only via the tour boat and water taxi services operating out of Seward, plac…

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Dumpling Mountain Trail

Dumpling Mountain Trail

📍 Brooks Camp, King Salmon
Strenuous 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

Dumpling Mountain Trail climbs from Brooks Camp through tundra and open shrubland to a rounded summit at 2,440 feet that…

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Exit Glacier Nature Trail

Exit Glacier Nature Trail

📍 Exit Glacier Trailhead, Seward
Easy 📏 1.0 Loop

Exit Glacier Nature Trail provides the most accessible introduction to the glacial landscape of Kenai Fjords National Pa…

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Flattop Mountain Trail

Flattop Mountain Trail

📍 Anchorage, AK
Strenuous 📏 3.5 Out-and-Back

Flattop Mountain Trail climbs to the summit of the most-climbed peak in all of Alaska, a distinction that speaks both to…

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Forest Loop Trail

Forest Loop Trail

📍 Glacier Bay Lodge, Gustavus
Easy 📏 1.0 Loop

The Forest Loop Trail circles through the ancient Sitka spruce forest immediately behind Glacier Bay Lodge, providing an…

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Frigid Crags Base Route

Frigid Crags Base Route

📍 Bettles, Alaska (fly-in access)
Strenuous 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

Gates of the Arctic National Park has no roads, no maintained trails, no visitor facilities in the backcountry, and no c…

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Geographic Harbor Approach

Geographic Harbor Approach

📍 Katmai National Park and Preserve, Shelikof Strait Coast, Alaska
Moderate 📏 3.0 Out-and-Back

Geographic Harbor on Katmai's remote Pacific coast is accessible only by floatplane or boat and represents the park's wi…

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Glacier View Loop

Glacier View Loop

📍 Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Easy 📏 1.0 Loop

The Glacier View Loop at the Exit Glacier area of Kenai Fjords National Park provides the closest accessible view of an …

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Great Kobuk Sand Dunes Approach

Great Kobuk Sand Dunes Approach

📍 Kobuk Valley, Alaska (fly-in)
Moderate 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are the largest active sand dunes in the Arctic — a 25-square-mile field of shifting sand rising …

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Great Kobuk Sand Dunes Trek

Great Kobuk Sand Dunes Trek

📍 Kobuk Valley (fly-in access)
Moderate 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are the largest active sand dunes in the Arctic -- a 25-square-mile field of shifting sand rising…

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Gustavus Beach Meadow Walk

Gustavus Beach Meadow Walk

📍 Gustavus, Alaska
Easy 📏 3.0 Out-and-Back

The beach and meadow corridor south of Gustavus village borders Glacier Bay National Park and provides easy access to co…

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Harding Icefield Trail

Harding Icefield Trail

📍 Exit Glacier Trailhead, Seward
Strenuous 📏 8.2 Out-and-Back

Harding Icefield Trail climbs from the Exit Glacier trailhead to the surface of the Harding Icefield itself — one of the…

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Horseshoe Lake Trail

Horseshoe Lake Trail

📍 Horseshoe Lake Trailhead, Denali Park
Easy 📏 3.0 Loop

Horseshoe Lake Trail loops through a boreal forest of white spruce, paper birch, and quaking aspen to reach a horseshoe-…

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Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk

Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk

📍 Kennicott, Wrangell-St. Elias
Moderate 📏 5.0 Out-and-Back

Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk travels from the historic mining town of Kennicott onto the lateral moraine of the Kennic…

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Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk

Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk

📍 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Moderate 📏 3.0 Out-and-Back

The Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk begins in the extraordinarily preserved ghost town of Kennicott, a National Historic …

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Kobuk River Gravel Bar Walk

Kobuk River Gravel Bar Walk

📍 Kobuk Valley (fly-in access)
Easy 📏 5.0 Out-and-Back

Walking the gravel bars of the Kobuk River is the most accessible form of travel in Kobuk Valley National Park, followin…

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Kobuk River Gravel Bar Walk

Kobuk River Gravel Bar Walk

📍 Kobuk Valley, Alaska (fly-in)
Easy 📏 5.0 Out-and-Back

Walking the gravel bars of the Kobuk River is the most accessible form of travel in Kobuk Valley National Park, followin…

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Kobuk Valley Dunes Approach

Kobuk Valley Dunes Approach

📍 Kobuk Valley National Park, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Moderate 📏 4.0 cross-country

The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes form the largest active sand dune field in the Arctic, covering 25 square miles of the Kobuk …

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Little Coal Creek Trail

Little Coal Creek Trail

📍 Talkeetna, AK
Strenuous 📏 5.0 Out-and-Back

The Little Coal Creek Trail is among the finest alpine ridge hikes in all of Denali State Park, climbing rapidly from th…

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Lost Lake Alpine Section

Lost Lake Alpine Section

📍 Lost Lake Trailhead, Seward
Strenuous 📏 7.0 Out-and-Back

Lost Lake Trail climbs from the Seward highway through Sitka spruce and hemlock rainforest before breaking above treelin…

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Lower Brooks River Trail

Lower Brooks River Trail

📍 Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska
Easy 📏 1.5 Out-and-Back

The Lower Brooks River Trail follows the south bank of the Brooks River from Brooks Camp to the world-famous Brooks Fall…

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McCarthy Creek Trail

McCarthy Creek Trail

📍 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Easy 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

The McCarthy Creek Trail follows the path of an old wagon road along the creek drainage from the historic town of McCart…

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Mount Healy Overlook Trail

Mount Healy Overlook Trail

📍 Visitor Center Area, Denali Park
Strenuous 📏 5.4 Out-and-Back

Mount Healy Overlook Trail is the finest maintained hiking trail accessible from Denali's entrance area, climbing from t…

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Nabesna Road Caribou Creek Trek

Nabesna Road Caribou Creek Trek

📍 Nabesna Road, Slana
Moderate 📏 6.0 Out-and-Back

Nabesna Road provides the only road access to the northern portion of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, a 42-mile gravel…

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Naknek Lake Shore Walk

Naknek Lake Shore Walk

📍 Brooks Camp, King Salmon
Easy 📏 3.0 Out-and-Back

Naknek Lake Shore Walk follows the beach of Naknek Lake -- one of the largest lakes in Alaska at 242 square miles -- fro…

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Nugget Creek Trail

📍 Kennicott, Wrangell-St. Elias
Strenuous 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

Nugget Creek Trail climbs from the Kennicott valley through boreal forest into open alpine tundra above treeline, provid…

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Point Gustavus Beach Walk

Point Gustavus Beach Walk

📍 Gustavus Beach, Gustavus
Easy 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

Point Gustavus Beach Walk follows the outer beach of the Gustavus forelands — a broad, flat coastal plain deposited by g…

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Port Alsworth Nature Walk

Port Alsworth Nature Walk

📍 Lake Clark National Park, Port Alsworth
Easy 📏 2.0 Loop

Port Alsworth is the gateway community to Lake Clark National Park, reachable only by small plane from Anchorage or Kena…

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Powerline Pass Trail

Powerline Pass Trail

📍 Anchorage, AK
Strenuous 📏 11.0 Out-and-Back

The Powerline Pass Trail is one of the premier long-distance hiking routes in Chugach State Park, following a broad vall…

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Resurrection River Trail

Resurrection River Trail

📍 Exit Glacier Road, Seward
Strenuous 📏 16.0 Point-to-Point

Resurrection River Trail follows the Resurrection River from the Exit Glacier Road through the valley bottom to the town…

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Resurrection River Trail

Resurrection River Trail

📍 Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 16.0 Out-and-Back

The Resurrection River Trail climbs from the Exit Glacier area into the alpine zone at the edge of the Harding Icefield,…

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Rock Creek Trail

Rock Creek Trail

📍 Visitor Center Area, Denali Park
Moderate 📏 2.6 Out-and-Back

Rock Creek Trail climbs steeply from the park headquarters area through boreal forest and open tundra to the ridge above…

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Root Glacier to Stairway Icefall

Root Glacier to Stairway Icefall

📍 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Moderate 📏 9.0 Out-and-Back

The Root Glacier trail from Kennicott is among the most accessible glacier walks in Alaska, allowing hikers to travel mi…

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Root Glacier Trail

Root Glacier Trail

📍 Kennicott, Wrangell-St. Elias
Moderate 📏 9.0 Out-and-Back

Root Glacier Trail provides the most accessible glacier walk in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, following a maintained…

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Salmon River Gorge Route

Salmon River Gorge Route

📍 Kobuk Valley National Park, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 6.0 cross-country

The Salmon River Gorge route in Kobuk Valley National Park follows one of the most spectacular limestone canyon systems …

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Salmon River Valley Trek

Salmon River Valley Trek

📍 Kobuk Valley, Alaska (fly-in)
Strenuous 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

The Salmon River, flowing south through the Baird Mountains into the Kobuk, offers a classic arctic river valley trekkin…

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Savage Alpine Trail

Savage Alpine Trail

📍 Savage River, Mile 15 Park Road
Strenuous 📏 4.0 Loop

Savage Alpine Trail climbs from the Savage River area -- the turnaround point for private vehicles on the park road -- a…

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Silver Salmon Creek Beach Walk

Silver Salmon Creek Beach Walk

📍 Lake Clark National Park, Silver Salmon Creek
Easy 📏 1.5 Out-and-Back

Silver Salmon Creek is one of Alaska's premier brown bear viewing destinations, accessible only by floatplane from Homer…

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Tanalian Falls Trail

Tanalian Falls Trail

📍 Lake Clark National Park, Port Alsworth
Moderate 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

The Tanalian Falls Trail departs from Port Alsworth and climbs through mixed spruce-birch forest to one of the park's mo…

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Tanalian Mountain Trail

Tanalian Mountain Trail

📍 Port Alsworth, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 10.0 Out-and-Back

Tanalian Mountain Trail is the most prominent maintained hiking trail in Lake Clark National Park, climbing from the tin…

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Tanalian Mountain Trail

Tanalian Mountain Trail

📍 Port Alsworth, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 10.0 Out-and-Back

Tanalian Mountain Trail is the most prominent maintained hiking trail in Lake Clark National Park, climbing from the tin…

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Triple Lakes Trail

Triple Lakes Trail

📍 McKinley Station, Denali Park
Strenuous 📏 9.6 Point-to-Point

Triple Lakes Trail is one of the longer maintained trails in Denali's entrance area, traversing boreal forest and tundra…

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Troublesome Creek Trail

Troublesome Creek Trail

📍 Talkeetna, AK
Strenuous 📏 8.0 Out-and-Back

The Troublesome Creek Trail earns its name in more ways than one, climbing through classic Alaska bear country to reach …

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Twin Lakes Shore Walk

Twin Lakes Shore Walk

📍 Twin Lakes (fly-in access)
Easy 📏 4.0 Loop

Twin Lakes -- the pair of glacially carved lakes in the heart of Lake Clark National Park made famous by Dick Proenneke,…

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Twin Lakes Shore Walk

Twin Lakes Shore Walk

📍 Twin Lakes, Alaska (fly-in)
Easy 📏 4.0 Loop

Twin Lakes — the pair of glacially carved lakes in the heart of Lake Clark National Park made famous by Dick Proenneke, …

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Trail

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Trail

📍 Katmai National Park and Preserve, Katmai Wilderness, Alaska
Moderate 📏 3.0 Out-and-Back

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes preserves the largest 20th-century volcanic landscape in North America, produced by th…

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Walker Lake Approach Trek

Walker Lake Approach Trek

📍 Walker Lake, Alaska (fly-in access)
Strenuous 📏 10.0 Out-and-Back

Walker Lake is one of the most beautiful alpine lakes in Alaska — a deep, glacier-carved lake in a dramatic cirque basin…

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Gustavus Road Cycling Network

📍 Gustavus, Alaska
Easy 📏 15.0 Loop

Gustavus is a small community of approximately 400 residents adjacent to Glacier Bay National Park that has developed a …

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King Salmon to Brooks Camp Cycling

📍 King Salmon Airport, King Salmon
Moderate 📏 24.0 Out-and-Back

The gravel road connecting King Salmon airport to Brooks Camp provides the only cycling route in Katmai National Park, t…

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McCarthy Road Cycling

McCarthy Road Cycling

📍 Chitina, Alaska
Strenuous 📏 60.0 Point-to-Point

McCarthy Road is the 60-mile gravel road from Chitina to the footbridge at McCarthy -- the only road access to Wrangell-…

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