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The State Park system began in 1970 with the creation of Denali State Park, Chugach State Park and Kachemak Bay State Park, three of the largest and still most popular parks in the state system. Wood-Tikchik State Park is the largest state park in the United States, comprising some 15% of total state park land in the nation. The division ...
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Eklutna Lake and Bold Peak in Chugach State Park seen from Twin Peaks trail The Lakeside Trail along Eklutna Lake in winter. The Lakeside Trail travels 12.7 miles (20.4 kilometers) along the shores of Eklutna Lake until it reaches the mile-long Eklutna Glacier Trail that leads in short order to the moraines at the foot of the colossal blue ice of Eklutna Glacier. [8]
The statute allows the United States Department of the Interior to "issue permits for microhydroelectric projects in the Kantishna Hills area of the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska"; it authorizes the Department of the Interior and a company called Doyon Tourism, Inc. to exchange some land in the area; it authorizes the National ...
The Nancy Lake State Recreation Area was established by the Alaska State Legislature on July 6, 1966, to be set aside specifically for use as recreation. The day prior, the nearby Matanuska-Susitna Borough designated the area as a special land-use district in order to apply local zoning laws which would reinforce the recreational use of the land, and allow the borough to apply penalties for ...
Ricky Gease, the director of Alaska State Parks, estimated a 60% increase in park use statewide from 2019 to 2021. Advocates for the trail formed a group that raised money for construction ...
Nov. 14—The cost of a parking pass for state parks in Alaska is set to increase in 2024. The Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday that passes will cost $75 starting Jan. 1. The ...
Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. [1] Kachemak Bay State Park was the first legislatively designated state park in the Alaska State Parks system. Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is the state's only legislatively designated ...