The biggest project approved would put just over $1 million toward creating a 25-mile connection between Turnagain Arm and the northern area of Anchorage.
that are part of an integrated trail system that proponents hope will rival the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast and the Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast. — though it may be renamed in the future — the system would cover more than 500 miles from Fairbanks in Interior Alaska to the Gulf of Alaska coastline on the Kenai Peninsula. It would connect existing trails within federal, state and municipal land into a network that could be traveled without interruption.
The biggest Alaska Long Trail project approved by lawmakers would put just over $1 million toward a link between existing trails to create an uninterrupted 25-mile connection between Turnagain Arm and the northern area of Anchorage. Another high-profile project would devote $500,000 to trail improvements on Anchorage’s Flattop Mountain, the state’s most-climbed peak. It is the site of summertime crowds, but some deteriorating trail conditions pose safety hazards to hikers.
Whether Gov. Mike Dunleavy will approve the projects is yet unknown. The governor, who has the power to make line-item budget vetoes, just received the budget on Wednesday and still needs time to review it, said spokesperson Jeff Turner. The governor’s decisions are due on June 28, Turner said. in Alaska Long Trail funding that lawmakers had approved for the 2023 fiscal year. That left seven projects with $4.22 million in funding in that year’s budget.
For the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, the state budget included over $1.43 million for three Alaska Long Trail projects in Chugach State Park, which lies within the Municipality of Anchorage.is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c public charity. Alaska Beacon maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Andrew Kitchenman for questions:Last year’s record outburst flood took Juneau by surprise.
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