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  2. Ernest Gruening Cabin - Wikipedia

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    The Ernest Gruening Cabin is a historic rural cabin in Juneau, Alaska, United States, and the centerpiece of Ernest Gruening State Historical Park. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame structure located 26 miles (42 km) north of the city on the Glacier Highway .

  3. List of Alaska state parks - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Kachemak Bay State Park - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Lauritsen Cabin - Wikipedia

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    The Lauritsen Cabin is a historic miner's cabin in the Chugach Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska. It is located a short way east of mile 48 of the Seward Highway, at the confluence of Mill and Canyon Creeks. It is built of hand-hewn logs fitted tightly with dovetail notches, and features a ridge pole hewn in a curve to ...

  6. Coming into the Country - Wikipedia

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    One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country". Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is ...

  7. Chugach State Park - Wikipedia

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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]

  8. Wood-Tikchik State Park - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Department of Natural Resources Wood-Tikchik State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Alaska north of Dillingham . Over 1,600,000 acres (650,000 ha) (6,500 km 2 ) in area—about the size of the state of Delaware —, comprising more than half of all state park land in Alaska and 15% of the total state park land in the country.

  9. Chilkat State Park - Wikipedia

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    Chilkat State Park is a 9,837-acre (3,980 ha) Alaska state park on a peninsula south of the town of Haines, Alaska between the Chilkat and Chilkoot inlets. Remote and known for the steep 14% grade gravel access road, the park offers campsites with minimal amenities and is open to fishing, hiking, boating, sea kayaking, and sightseeing.