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Chugach National Forest. The Chugach National Forest is a 6,908,540-acre (27,958 km 2) [2] United States National Forest in south central Alaska. Covering portions of Prince William Sound, the Kenai Peninsula and the Copper River Delta, it was formed in 1907 from part of a larger forest reserve. The Chugach includes extensive shorelines ...
Portage Glacier is visible on the left. Portage Lake is a glacial lake in the Chugach National Forest of the U.S. state of Alaska. It sits in a long, heavily glaciated valley, and abuts the calving face of Portage Glacier at its southern end. The lake has only become visible since approximately 1914, with the rapid retreat of Portage Glacier.
The road continues for a short distance before passing the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center and associated buildings, comprising the headquarters of Portage Glacier unit of the Chugach National Forest. [10] The highway continues onto the Portage Creek Bridge, which is 114 feet (35 m) long. [11]
Portage Glacier is a glacier on the Kenai Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska [1] and is included within the Chugach National Forest. It is located south of Portage Lake and 6 km (4 mi) west of Whittier. Portage Glacier was a local name first recorded in 1898 by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, so ...
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 ...
The Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska are the northernmost of the several mountain ranges that make up the Pacific Coast Ranges of the western edge of North America. The range is about 250 miles (402 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide, and extends from the Knik and Turnagain Arms of the Cook Inlet on the west to Bering Glacier, Tana Glacier ...
Byron Peak is typically climbed from the north. Byron Peak is a 4,590 feet (1,399 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska, located in Chugach National Forest .
Summit Lake (or Upper Summit Lake) [1] is located on Canyon Creek in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska, United States and is situated along the Seward Highway (AK-1) 10 miles (16 km) north-northeast of Moose Pass and about 23 miles (37 km) southwest of the Portage area of Anchorage. [2] The lake is fed by Canyon Creek from the southwest and ...