50 Hikes in Alaska's Chugach State Park

by Shane Shepherd, Owen Wozniak

* The first hiking guidebook devoted to Alaska's Chugach State Park
* Includes great hikes for families as well as serious backpackers
* Both authors are avid Alaska hikers and know these trails intimately

Attracting over a million visitors each year, Alaska's Chugach State Park spans a half-million acres and eight distinct environments -- all within easy reach of Anchorage. This is the most comprehensive trail guidebook to the region.

50 Hikes in Alaska's Chugach State Park includes nearly all the hikeable trails and peaks in the park, from popular Flattop Mountain to rarely seen valleys. With a mix of hikes for all ages and abilities, you'll be able to find exactly what you're looking for, whether it's a two-mile week-night stroll or a multiday backpacking trip or scramble.

For each hike you'll get detailed driving directions to the trailhead; complete information on elevation, hiking time, difficulty, distance, and terrain; and helpful maps and photos. Rounding out the guidebook is information on flora and fauna, history, and geology of Chugach State Park.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2001

Reviews

[Elizabeth O · Rating 5 out of 5]

Though I can find all of this information on an app through my phone, it's been nice to have a hard copy. I've explored so much and yet it doesn't make much of a dent in the 495,000 acres set aside as Chugach National Forest. Loved learning that Chugach State Park is a result of grassroots efforts to fight a proposed timber sale in 1969.. The committee was led by 19-year-old Sharon Cissna. I'm particularly inspired in light of today's capitalist oligarchy proposing to sell public lands off to the highest bidders.

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last stream poisoned, will the white man realize he cannot eat money." - Native American Proverb