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Eagle River, Anchorage, Alaska. Coordinates: 61°19′17″N 149°34′04″W. Eagle River is a community within the Municipality of Anchorage situated on the Eagle River, for which it is named, between Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) and Chugach State Park in the Chugach Mountains. Its ZIP code is 99577.
Eagle, Alaska. Eagle (Tthee T’äwdlenn in Hän Athabascan [3]) is a village on the south bank of the Yukon River, near the Canada–US border in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area in Alaska, United States. It includes the Eagle Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The population was 86 at the 2010 census.
Mount Yukla is located 25 miles (40 km) east of Anchorage in the western Chugach Mountains. [ 1] It ranks as the highest peak in the Eagle River drainage, [ 4] and fourth-highest peak within Chugach State Park. [ 5][ 6] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains to Knik Arm via the Eagle River. Although modest in elevation, topographic ...
Site Summit performed live fire tests of its Nike-Hercules missiles between 1960 and 1963, [2] [4] [7] [8] before the launches became dangerous due to the growing population of Anchorage. The Nike-Hercules missile, the United States military's first anti-aircraft missile capable of being equipped with nuclear warheads, was a formidable defense ...
The peak is situated at the head of South Fork Eagle River Valley, east of downtown Anchorage, and stands out as the highest summit along a long ridgeline that includes Flute Peak (6610 ft.) and Hurdygurdy Mountain (5965 ft.) Towering above Eagle Lake, Flute Glacier, and Eagle River Valley, Eagle Peak is one of several imposing peaks in the immediate area over 6000 feet.
Eagle River [3] • average. 527 cu ft/s (14.9 m 3 /s) [3] The Eagle River is a stream, 40 miles (64 km) long, in Anchorage, Alaska. [1] Heading at Eagle Glacier in Chugach State Park, it flows northwest into Eagle Bay on the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of downtown Anchorage. [1]
Chugach State Park. Coordinates: 61°03′07″N 149°47′49″W. Bashful Peak, at 8,005 feet (2,440 meters), is the tallest mountain in Chugach State Park. Aerial view of a glacier in Chugach State Park. Chugach State Park covers 495,204 acres (2,004 square kilometers) [1] covering a hilly region immediately east of Anchorage, in south ...
American Summit. American Summit or (occasionally) American Pass (Hän: Häk'aww) is a 3,420 feet (1,042 m)-high mountain pass through the high ground of the Fortymile River district of east-central Alaska. [1] Today, American Summit is traversed by the Taylor Highway, which connects the town of Eagle, Alaska to the Alaska Highway and the Top ...