ALASKA

National Parks With Hiking

Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Denali National Park & Preserve
Dogs are not allowed on the trails or in the backcountry but are allowed in campgrounds

Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve
This park is closed to dogs

Glacier Bay National Park
Accessible only by plane or by boat

Katmai National Park & Preserve
Dogs are allowed in all parts of the park except Brooks Camp

Kenai Fjords National Park
Dogs are not allowed on the trails in this park

Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
Dogs are allowed on the boardwalks and all trails, save the Chilkoot Trail

Kobuk Valley National Park

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Dogs are allowed on the park's one trail

Noatak National Preserve

Sitka National Historic Park
Dogs are allowed throughout the park

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve
Dogs are allowed on the trails in America's largest park

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Access is limited with no roads, maintained trails or public airstrips

Links to National Forests With Hiking

Chugach National Forest

Tongass National Forest

State Parks With Hiking
http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/

Dogs are welcome in most Alaska state parks subject to posted restrictions.

Anchor River State Recreation Area anchoriv.htm	Big Lake Area Parks	Birch Lake State Recreation Site birch.htm	Caines Head State Recreation Area caineshd.htm
Captain Cook State Recreation Area captcook.htm	Chena River State Recreation Area index.htm	Chena River State Recreation Site chenasrs.htm	Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve eagleprv.htm
Chugach State Park index.htm	Clam Gulch State Recreation Area clamglch.htm	Copper Basin Area Parks	Deep Creek State Recreation Area deepck.htm
Delta Junction Area State Parks index.htm	Denali State Park denali1.htm	Glenn Hwy. Area Parks	Haines Area State Parks haines.htm
Harding Lake State Recreation Area harding.htm	Independence Mine State Historical Park indmine.htm	Juneau Area Parks	Kachemak Bay State Park kbay.htm
Kasilof Area State Parks kasilof.htm	Kenai River Special Management Area kenairiv.htm	Kepler-Bradley Lakes SRA	Ketchikan Area Parks
Kodiak Area State Parks index.html	Lake Louise SRA	Matanuska and Sustina Valleys	Nancy Lake State Recreation Area nancylk.htm
Ninilchik State Recreation Area nilchik.htm	Point Bridget State Park ptbridg1.htm	Resurrection Bay State Marine Parks	Salcha River State Recreation Site salcha.htm
Sitka Area State Parks sitka.htm	Stariski SRS	State Marine Parks smppws.htm	State Wilderness Park
Summit Lake State Recreation Site summit.htm	Tok Area Parks  tok.htm	Totem Bight State Historical Park  totembgh.htm	Valdez Area Parks
Wasilla/Willow Area Parks	Wickersham State Historic Site wickrshm.htm	Willow Creek SRA	Wood-Tikchik State Park woodtik.htm
Wrangell Area Parks and Marine Parks

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Your Dog's Favorite Hikes In Alaska

Submitted by Natalie
I hiked in Alaska with multiple dogs in the summers of ,02 and ,03. In ,02, we did the Pinnel Mtn. Trail, about 30 miles of trail off of the Steese Hwy. It was great- the dogs were totally in their element! We had two dogs then, and they each carried a backpack with not only their food and water, but the extra stuff we couldn,t carry too. They loved the freedom to roam and were great! The next summer, we did the Chena Dome Trail, off of Chena Hot Springs road with three people and four dogs. Two of the dogs had packs, and carried all the "dog stuff with them. That was a very dry summer, and we had a hard time finding enough water for ourselves, yet the dogs were great at digging out and lapping up groundwater- they even pointed out water for us when we were running low!

These two trails are so great when you have dogs with you, as you rarely run into other people (or other dogs) who could get annoyed by your dogs. The only drawback is that you generally won,t see as much wildlife because the dogs are having so much fun chasing them around about a mile ahead of you. These are very challenging trails- especially Chena Dome, so if you have an older dog who may be slightly arthritic, I wouldn,t suggest it, as even our young healthy dogs were extremely stiff in the mornings. (Not as stiff as we were, though!)

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