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Anchorage trails are maintained by the State Park Service, Parks and Recreation, [5] the Municipality of Anchorage, [6] and private action groups who serve multiple user groups like skiers or bikers. The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA) [ 7 ] was founded in the early 1960s when Nordic Skiing took Anchorage by storm. [ 7 ]
The trail is a portion of the annual Tour of Anchorage cross country ski marathon. The trail's namesake is the former Anchorage mayor and Alaska governor. 61°13′14″N 149°53′51″W / 61.22056°N 149.89750°W / 61.22056; -149.89750 The Trail was pioneered and designed by the firm of Arctic Engineers, Inc., wholly owned and ...
This was the first of what was to become a network of multi-use trails within the city. [8] Renamed the Lanie Fleischer Chester Creek Trail in 1994, the four mile long trail is popular with cyclists in summer, and skiers in winter. A comprehensive three year improvement project for the trail, with an estimated cost of US$3.2 million, began in ...
The Tony Knowles Coastal Trail system passes this end of the lagoon, before turning east and passing the Bootleggers Cove neighborhood to the north of the lagoon and continuing further inland into Anchorage. The lagoons eastern boundary is Spenard Road. To the south are single and multi-family homes, Hillcrest Drive and West Anchorage High School.
The park is bounded on the west by the ocean, along which the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail runs, [2] the north by municipal lands associated with the sewage treatment plant, the east by airport land, and the south by Heritage Land Bank lands and airport lands. In addition, a Phillips gas pipeline right-of-way crosses the park near its southern end.
It is usually reached by driving to the Glen Alps trailhead and following a 1.5-mile (2.4-km) trail, with an elevation gain of 1,280 feet (390 m) from the parking lot to the plateau. Off the plateau loop is a difficult trail to the peak.
The headwaters of Rabbit Creek originate at 3,153 ft (961 m) at Rabbit Lake, a 75-acre (0.30 km 2) alpine lake at the base of [3] North Yuyanq' Ch'ex and [4] South Yuyanq' Ch'ex. [5] Rabbit Lake is a popular hiking destination and can be reached via either the Rabbit Lake Trail or the neighboring McHugh Creek drainage.
Map of the historical and current Iditarod trails. The Iditarod Trail, also known historically as the Seward-to-Nome Trail, is a thousand-plus mile (1,600 km) historic and contemporary trail system in the US state of Alaska. The trail began as a composite of trails established by Alaskan native peoples.