Dynamic Trail Guide

This collection of online trail guides (and other resources) is organized by region and resource type. You can browse the collection or use the search tool.

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• Online Trail Guides
  • ALASKA AND BEYOND
    • AllTrails
    This is trail and activity guide includes many hiking and water trails. It also allows users to browse by other activities. Many of the trail pages don't have much information, but there may be something of use here for someone who wants to dig.
    • Google Earth
    Version 5.0 has a "layers" feature that includes trails and other outdoors-oriented trips from three organizations: Trimble Outdoors, Wikiloc, and EveryTrail. The Trimble information is the best. It comes from the well-regarded Backpacker magazine and is mainly for hikers and backpackers. Wikiloc is Spain-based and some of the descriptions are in Spanish. Both Wikiloc and EveryTrail are user-contributed trails. Some are fairly decent trail guides, but some are just trips that someone took and posted. View the layers by starting Google Earth (make sure you have version 5.0 or higher), go to "Layers" in the sidebar on the left; expand the "Gallery" folder under "Primary Database;" and click on Trimble Outdoors Trips, Wikiloc, or EveryTrail. You can select them one at a time or all at once. Version 5.2 allows users to view elevation, speed, and other data as a graph directly in Google Earth. See this blog post: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-google-earth-52.html
    
    Features: Maps, photos, GPS tracks
    • Google Maps
    Highlights bike trails, bicycle-friendly streets, and even some mountain bike trails. Gives point-to-point biking directions using those features. Click on '''Get Directions''' and then the biking icon. Get close enough and you can browse the green trails that show up on the map, or you can type in directions. It'''s new, so many places in Alaska don'''t have great coverage yet.
    
    Features: Maps, photos (under Street View)
    • National Recreation Trails
    Has information on more than 1,000 National Recreation Trails in all 50 states. Trail data is as provided by the trail manager. Has information on about 15 trails from across Alaska.
    • TrailHeadFinder.com
    This website offers help in finding hiking trails. It has a handful in Alaska -- mostly in Southcentral -- with only basic information on the trails.
    • TrailLink.com
    Rails-To-Trails Conservancy trail finder. Set up well and has good information, but has just a handful of Alaska trails. Must register in order to see the maps.
    
    Features: Maps, GPX coordinates, photos
    • Trails Co-op
    A "digital trails library" that is interactive and based on Google applications. Most of the data so far is from governments, big and small, but the site author is hoping people will add to the entries. There are more than 50 in Alaska, most in Southcentral, but at last check only one had a written description.
    • Trails.com
    Has land- and water-based trails from across the state. At last check all were non-motorized, though the website does have a category for off-highway drives. Service is not free, but you can try the site free for 14 days.
    
    Features: Maps, GPX coordinates, photos
    • Trailsource
    Organizes searches by activity, both motorized and non-motorized. It has a variety of trails across the state and includes printable maps. Not a free service. Memberships can be purchaced by the year, quarter, or month.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Wildernet.com
    Has some limited statewide information on a variety of outdoor activities across the state. However, the information on Alaska is sparse and the site is inconvenient to search.
  • ALASKA -- STATEWIDE
    • Alaska State Parks
    Includes lots of information on trails in state parks across the state. Look under "Alaska State Trails" or find trail opportunities under individual parks.
    • Alaska State Parks: Alaska Trails System
    Subsection of Alaska State Parks, has a lot of information about the Alaska State Trails Program.
    • Alaska State Parks: Explore Alaska State Park Trails
    Subsection of Alaska State Parks. Allows users to get information about trails in Alaska state parks a variety of ways. Users can: Explore a state park trail system with the interactive Alaska State Parks Trail Browser. Find a trail for specific interests with the Alaska State Parks Trail Reporting System. Print a Trail Map & Guide to take with you on your next hike. Download Google Earth kml files. And download GPS tracks and waypoint. These tools are new and many state parks trails are not yet included.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Alaska State Parks: SnowTRAC Grooming Pool
    Subsection of Alaska State Parks, has maps of winter trails across the state that are groomed through the state grant program for snowmobile grooming.
    
    Features: Maps
    • BLM (Bureau of Land Management), Alaska recreation page
    BLM manages millions of acres of Alaska wilderness, including lands and rivers, with lots of recreation opportunities. Most of these places are in interior Alaska with more in Southcentral and a few more scattered across the state. The largest BLM trail-and-cabin network in Alaska is in the White Mountains National Recreation Area north of Fairbanks. Most of the trails are winter-only.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • BLM Eastern Field office site.
    Subsection of BLM Alaska Recreation page. Links to Steese National Conservation Area, Pinnell Mountain Trail, Birch Creek National Wild River, Beaver Creek National Wild River, and Fortymile National Wild River.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • BLM Glennallen field office trails information site.
    Subsection of BLM Alaska Recreation page. Glennallen Field Office Trails Information. Has information about trails off the Denali, Edgerton, and south Richardson highways.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • BLM White Mountains
    Subsection of BLM Alaska Recreation page. Information about the White Mountains National Recreation Area.
    
    Features: Maps, photos, cabin information
    • Happy Trails, Inc.
    Has pictures and descriptions of several trails this company has worked on in southcentral and interior Alaska.
    
    Features: Photos, descriptions
    • National Park Service, Alaska
    Alaska's national parks have few official trails given the acreage they encompass. The best way to find out park information about trails is to go to each park website, then go to Plant Your Visit > Things to Do. From there you can choose a specific activity. Otherwise, finding information online about the trails is not all that easy, but it is there. Each park site usually has a listing for "Maps" under "Directions." For the most part, these are large overview maps that give you a general idea of what official trails are out there. Another method is to go to the website listed above, click on the park, then type trails into the search engine. You can also purchase National Geographic "Trails Illustrated" maps (see Print Resources). Many but not all Alaska national parks are covered in these.The National Park Service has a webpage that describes trails in national parks that are accessible to people with disabilities. Alaska trails are at the top of the page: www.nps.gov/pub_aff/access/trails.htm
    • TrailMapper
    A wiki trails database, containing tracklogs from the public. Trails are mapped using the 3-D Google Earth web-browser plugin. Tracklogs can be downloaded freely, and you can upload your own data to share with others. People looking for trails can use a variety of search tools, including a keyword search, area search, and trail parameter (length, elevation gain, etc) search.
    
    A seasonal use matrix is shown for each trail as well, so you can find out at a glance whether a certain trail is suitable for your usage type during a given season.
    
    Features: Maps, GPX downloads, more
    • U.S. Forest Service: Alaska
    The Alaska page has links to trail information for a variety of activities in the Chugach National Forest near Anchorage in southcentral Alaska, and the Tongass National Forest near Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau in southeast Alaska. The best place to look for online trails info is under the "Recreation" link. The "Maps and Brochures" link has info on print-based maps and specialized ArcGIS mapping information.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: AREAWIDE
    • AKTrailhead
    An online reference for various hikes throughout southcentral Alaska. It includes a list of links to various pages, each containing photography, a trail description, a difficulty analysis, and how-to-get-there directions. Additional information includes trail length, time required, and seasonal information.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Chugach State Park
    A good collection of PDF maps of trails in the Chugach State Park.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Ski trail maps
    The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage has links to maps of ski trails in the Anchorage area and other areas of southcentral Alaska. Most are PDF maps of groomed ski trails and they vary greatly in quality. It includes links to trails on which you can ski with your dog.
    
    Features: Maps
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: ANCHORAGE AREA
    • Alaska Hike Search
    An excellent and easily searchable guide to hikes in southcentral Alaska with regular contributions from readers on trail conditions, photos, etc. It also has a couple of trails outside of Southcentral. The person who maintains the site moved from Alaska in early 2010, but still plans to keep the site active and updated.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Anchorage's Trail Watch
    Provides safety reports on Anchorage trails. To see the reports click on "Trail Report Review."
    • Eagle River ski trails
    The Eagle River Nordic Ski Club has maps of ski trails in the Eagle River area.
    • Municipality of Anchorage Parks and Recreation Department
    Has information about the city's trails. Look under "Parks and Trails" for trail information, and under "Trail Watch" for trail safety. Has a downloadable map of Kincaid Park trails.
    • Southcentral Alaska Bike Map (Anchorage Daily News)
    This is an interactive map of paved and unpaved cycling opportunities in the Anchorage area including some with photos.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Trails of Anchorage
    This site is about four of Anchorage's
    
    Features: Maps, photos
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: EASTERN
    • Wrangell-St. Elias Air Taxi Services
    The websites of these two air taxi services have good descriptions of hiking, backpacking, rafting, and mountaineering trips that can be done in the Wrangell-St. Elias area. Of course, you'll need to book a flight.McCarthy Air: www.mccarthyair2.com/Wrangell Mountain Air: www.wrangellmountainair.com/
    • Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve: Outdoor Activities section
    Describes outdoor opportunities in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, as well as in the Glennallen, Copper Center, and Chitina areas. Includes specific pages on hiking, ATV riding, mountain biking, river trips, sea kayaking, and more. Some PDFs have excellent trail descriptions along with maps and photos.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: MAT-SU AREA
    • Big Lake Trails
    Maps of trails throughout the Big Lake area, including a PDF map of Nancy Lake State Recreation Area trails.
    
    Features: Maps, GPS coordinates
    • Matanuska Greenbelt
    A website about the greenbelt
    
    Features: Maps
    • Matanuska-Susitna Borough trails
    (Click on the "Trails" link on the left hand menu) Includes downloadable maps and trail guides for specific trails, information about trail conditions, trail projects and programs, and plans and topics. It also contains sections on MSB Trail Projects & Programs, Trail Guides, Trail Plan, and Trail Topics.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: KENAI AREA
    • Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
    The refuge website has information on hiking, canoeing, camping, and cabins on this Kenai Peninsula wildlife refuge.
    • The Kenai Canoe Trails
    This website supports a book of the same name. The site has very general maps of the Swan Lake and Swanson River canoe trails on the Kenai Peninsula.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • The Seward Nordic Ski Club
    This site has maps of a variety of different trails in the Seward area. While the maps are geared toward skiers, some indicate where other types of activities are allowed, such as dog mushing, snowmachining, and skijoring. Look under Trail Descriptions > Local Area Trail Maps.
    
    Features: Maps, trail descriptions, photos, more.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: VALDEZ AREA
    • City of Valdez
    Descriptions of trails around Valdez. (Note: click on trail name, not on icon, to download maps)
    
    Features: Maps
    • Maps: Valdez, Alaska
    This site has maps of a few hiking trails around Valdez.
    
    Features: Maps
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: AREAWIDE
    • Alaska Skijoring and Pulk Association: Fairbanks Trails
    Includes a variety of maps of mostly winter trails, though some year-round trails. Has maps of the Jeff Studdert Mushing Racegrounds and Creamer's Field skijoring trails among others.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Fairbanks Cycle Club: Ride Maps
    Includes topo maps, 3-D topo maps, ride profiles, and ride descriptions of many winter and summer mountain bike rides in and around Fairbanks.
    
    Features: Maps, GPS tracks
    • Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation Department
    Has links to Birch Hill Recreation Area webpage (which has a trails map link) and to Chena Lake Recreation Area (which has a maps link and maps in its Winter Brochure).
    
    Features: Maps
    • Fairbanks Paddlers: Rivers
    Includes descriptions and links to descriptions of floats down some Interior rivers.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Fairbanks Snow Travelers
    Includes topo maps and GPS track logs of several winter trips in the Interior. Most are farther out of town, including to the north (Chatanika, Cleary Summit, White Mountains areas) and to the east (Two Rivers, Chena Hot Springs areas).
    
    Features: Maps, GPS tracks
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: FAIRBANKS AREA
    • Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge
    Has basic maps and descriptions of the walking/running trails at Creamer's Field.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks: Downloads: Trail Maps
    The "Downloads > Trail Maps" section of this site includes PDF maps of the Jim Whisenhant Ski Trails at Birch Hill Recreation Area, the UAF Winter Trails, and the Pearl Creek Nordic Ski Park.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Running Club North: Equinox Marathon
    Has topo map, 3-D topo map, and a course profile of the Equinox Marathon course, in addition to course records, finishing times, and more.
    
    Features: Maps, race info, records, more.
    • Trails in the Goldstream Valley
    Extensive maps of trails in the Goldstream Valley, including the lower valley north and west of Ester Dome. Also includes a couple of trails on Ester Dome.
    
    Features: Maps
    • UAF Facility Services: North Campus Recreation
    Has summer-use and winter-use maps of university trail system, including winter use for biking, dog walking, and walking and snowshoeing. Also has sections for trail conditions and winter grooming.
    
    Features: Maps
    • University Trails Club
    Has maps of the university trail system in a variety of formats.
    
    Features: Maps
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHEAST: AREAWIDE
    • Juneau Alaska Trails: Walking, Biking and Hiking
    Has a number of trails in the Juneau area rated by difficulty. Includes some photos. Also includes several non-technical mountain climbs, waterfalls, and beaches and parks.
    
    Features: Photos
    • SEATrails
    SEAtrails is southeast Alaska's long-distance, community-focused trail system inter-connected by Alaska's Marine Highway System (Alaska's State ferry system). The guide includes more than 75 trails covering a variety of activities in 19 Southeast communities.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Sitka Trail Works 'Hiking Trails' page
    A list of hiking trail descriptions in the Sitka area. No maps, but it has 'easy' to 'difficult' ratings and trail lengths.
    • Sitka Vacations.com: Sitka Alaska Trail Hiking Guide
    A collection of trail descriptions in Sitka area. Includes quite a bit of information including a photo from along each trail.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Trail Mix, Inc: Juneau Area Trail Maps
    This has 3-D maps of trails in areas around Juneau. The maps work with Google Earth or through your browser with the free Google Earth plug-in. The Trail Mix website also has lots of information about trails, trails advocacy, and volunteering opportunities in the Juneau area.
    
    Features: Maps
• Online Trail Guides, Activity or Trail Specific
  • ALASKA AND BEYOND
    • Backpacker
    Can be a bit slow to start. Done by the same people who publish Backpacker Magazine. Almost all trails on this site are geared toward hiking or backpacking. From the home page use the Find a Hike function. It has Backpacker reviewed trips and reader-submitted content (under different tabs). Use the "View All" buttons or you'll only get a few trails.
    
    Features: Maps, GPS coordinates, photos
    • DirtWorld.com
    For mountain bikers. Several trails, mostly in Southcentral. Quality of information is spotty.
    
    Features: Photos
    • LocalHikes
    LocalHikes is a US-only site that has guides for many hiking trails. When checked last it had only five Alaska hikes, all in the Anchorage area, but each hiking trail has a nice write-up and some of the comments have good tips for the trail.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Map My Hike
    Despite its name, this site has information on a variety of different non-motorized activities. Users can log their own outdoor activities, not all of which include trails. This is not so much a trail guide as an activity guide.
    
    Features: Maps, photos
    • Mtbr.com
    For mountain bikers. Trails from across the state. Has brief descriptions, location maps, and rating system. Quality of information is spotty. Some locator maps are way off.
    
    Features: Photos
    • RiderPlanet USA
    Has a handful of ATV-accessible trails from different areas across the state.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Singletracks
    Has several trails from across the state suitable for mountain biking (almost all in Southcentral at last check). They are rated by difficulty.
    
    Features: Maps,photos, videos
    • TheBackpacker.com
    Has reviews of some trails across the state good for hiking and backpacking. The site has only a few reviews and some of the reviews have almost non-existent details, but there are some with good information.
  • ALASKA -- STATEWIDE
    • Alaska Snow Rider
    A snowmachine enthusiast site that has maps of trails from across the state that are groomed through the state grant program for grooming.
    
    Features: Maps
    • Eureka Lodge.com
    Has maps of snowmobile trails in the Eureka and Lake Louise areas in Southcentral along the Glenn Highway.
    
    Features: Maps
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: ANCHORAGE AREA
    • Singletrack Advocates
    Site has link to a map of singletrack trails on the Hillside area of the Far North Bicentennial Park.
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: AREAWIDE
    • Pinnell Mountain Trail
    This website is a guide to the Pinnell Mountain Trail by Alfred Cook, president of the Circle District Historical Society. It includes mile-by-mile descriptions, maps, and photos.
    
    Features: Maps,photos
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: FAIRBANKS AREA
    • Goldstream Classic Ski Trail
    This is a map and blog of a trail that is only for classic-style skiing that starts at Goldstream Sports in Fairbanks. For more information on the trail call the store at 455-6520.
    
    Features: Map
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHEAST: AREAWIDE
    • Gastineau Meadows Trail
    This nice article on the Juneau Empire website describes the hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing potential of the Gastineau Meadows Trail.http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/a-gastineau-meadow/This Juneau blogger raves about the Gastineau Meadows Trail and includes some nice photos
    
    Features: Photos
    • Oregonian newspaper: Misty Fiords
    This Oregonian newspaper article describes the water trails of Misty Fiords National Monument near Ketchikan.
    • Rainbird Trail
    The website describes this Ketchikan trail as an
    
    Features: Photos
    • Salmon Creek Trail
    This column from the Juneau Empire describes an outing on the Salmon Creek Trail.
    • Thimbleberry Lake Trail
    This video has sights and sounds of what you can see along Sitka's Thimbleberry Lake Trail.
• Trail Related Information (Not a trail Guide)
  • ALASKA AND BEYOND
    • Alaska Outdoors Supersite
    This site has been around since 1996 and has a variety of resources that can be useful to trail users across the state including forums for a variety of outdoor activities; articles on boating, fishing, hunting, and snowmachining; and a bookstore.
    • American Trails: Alaska Trail Resources
    Has many links to trails resources in the state, include some online trail guides, however, most are included in this list.
    • GORP
    This website has reader-submitted information about various non-motorized outdoor activities (many trail-related) across the state. It has some good articles, but the site has problems. (One locator map to Denali National Park and Preserve puts you off the coast of Africa.)
    • Linkpendium
    A collection of links that includes Alaska websites for hiking, biking, and other activities. Many links are from Trails.com and a group called the County Highpointers Association, which has Information on finding and hiking the US county highpoints.
    • Peak to Peak
    A collection of links that includes Alaska websites for a variety of outdoor hiking, backpacking, trail and wilderness websites!
    • Recreation.gov
    A searchable database of government recreation opportunities across the nation, including Alaska. Under "Recreation Search" you can pick from a variety of recreation types, many of which are trail-based.
    • Slackpacker
    Has links to websites with hiking and backpacking trail maps, trip reports, and photographs from trails across the United States.
  • ALASKA -- STATEWIDE
    • Alaska Public Lands Information Center
    Has information about public lands throughout the state.
    • Alaska State Parks (Current Park News)
    Often has trail reports from different areas.
    • Alaska Tide Book Company
    This site allows you to search coastal areas across the state for tide conditions.
    • Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center
    Has useful information, especially water-trail users and winter users. Information includes current river levels, river forecasts, snow depth, and breakup. Site has historical data for rivers, including levels. On the left menu bar there is a link called "River Database" under "Climate and History." The tools there allow users to plot data for extended periods.
    • Cross Country Alaska
    A website about cross-country skiing. Has a trails report page that allows people to comment on trails from every region of the state. Not all the trails have comments posted and sometimes comments are a month or more old, but they are often useful and they're free.Also has trail reports on hiking, biking, and skating.
    • Icebike
    Features information about winter cycling. It has articles from all over the world, including several about cycling trails in Alaska.
    • National Weather Service
    A website with lots of information on rivers in the state, such as how breakup is going and what river conditions are like. It also tracks snow depths at many locations across the state. For a brief overview of how the weather service's hydrologic program works in the state, see the boater webguide slideshow at:http://aprfc.arh.noaa.gov/pubs/Presentations/boaterwebguide.pdf
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: AREAWIDE
    • Chugach National Forest
    The Recreation link has links to a variety of resources for trail users.
    • Excursions
    This Anchorage Daily News webpage highlights many trails in the Southcentral area. The content is put together by Daily News photographer Marc Lester. The slide shows, which run 2 to 4 minutes, are excellent and a great resource for locals and visitors to the area. The slideshows are not completely dedicated to trails, but many focus on trails or other outdoor adventures. A recent check of the page found slideshows on Flattop Mountain, Alyeska's North Face Trail, Winner Creek Trail, Falls Creek Trail, the Trail of Blue Ice, Pioneer Peak, Exit Glacier, and Girdwood area trails.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Hike of the Week
    An Alaska HDTV show featuring video of hikes and how to get there. A variety of hikes are included on the website. Most are in southcentral Alaska.
    • Hiking in The Chugach Mountains
    A personal website featuring many good photos of various hikes in Chugach State Park.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: ANCHORAGE AREA
    • Eagle and Symphony lakes
    This Eagle River Star article describes the trail to Eagle and Symphony lakes just outside of Eagle River.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: MAT-SU AREA
    • Bodenburg Butte
    This Anchorage Press article describes the 1.5-mile trail up Bodenburg Butte in the Mat-Su Valley.
    
    Features: Photo
    • Hiking the Reed Lakes Trail
    A photographer's blog with pictures and a short description of the Reed Lakes Trail near Hatcher Pass.
    • Outdoors Supersite: Alaska: Alaska Snowmachining
    This forum has winter trail grooming reports from Deshka Landing and Willow. It's aimed at snowmachiners but can be useful for any winter trail users in the area.
    • The April Bowl Trail
    A photographer's blog with pictures and a short description of the April Bowl Trail at Hatcher Pass.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: KENAI AREA
    • Diamond Creek Trail (blog entry)
    This blog entry has a nice little description of Diamond Creek Trail in Homer.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Mount Marathon Bowl trail
    This 4-minute YouTube video of this trail near Seward gives you a good idea of what you'll find on this hike that takes you into alpine country.
    
    Features: Videos
    • Sea Kayak yurt trail
    Here's a video that describes a yurt-to-yurt paddle in Kachemak Bay.
    
    Features: Videos
    • Skyline Trail
    This article describes Skyline Trail on the Kenai Peninsula.
    
    Features: Photos
    • Soggy Bottom 100 slide show
    This slide show is specifically about a 2008 mountain bike race, but it has good photos of what trail users will find along the Resurrection Pass Trail, a trail on the Kenai Peninsula that is non-motorized in summer.
    
    Features: Slideshow
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: AREAWIDE
    • Fairbanks Alaska Public Lands Information Center blog
    This blog has useful links and often has trail-related information.
    • Rex Trail
    This popular motorized multi-use trail stretches many miles along the Alaska Range. In recent years it has been subject to some vehicle restrictions. This website isn't a guide, but it does have useful information about the trail.
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: FAIRBANKS AREA
    • Ester Dome Singletrack
    These YouTube videos show bikers using the new singletrack on Ester Dome.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoYwpLlDEqw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBaIpSADFo
    
    Features: Videos

  • ALASKA -- SOUTHEAST: AREAWIDE
    • Skagway Area Trails
    Under its "Travel Tips" site, USA Today has short descriptions of several trails in the Skagway area.
• Print Resources
  • ALASKA -- STATEWIDE
    • Alaska Geographic
    Alaska Geographic is a non-profit bookstore, publisher, educator, and supporter of Alaska's parks, forests, and refuges. It has extensive resources and information regarding trails and the outdoors in Alaska. Check the "Explore Alaska" and "Bookstore" links.
    • Alaska Outdoors Supersite
    Good source for print resources. Has a variety of book trail guides and maps.
    • Alaska Wilderness Trails
    This site advertises a self-published book about several trails in Alaska. Most of the trails included are in Southcentral, but the book includes a few off the Denali Highway.
    • National Geographic "Trails Illustrated" Maps
    Maps of several national parks and preserves across the state, as well as maps of Prince William Sound, Kachemak Bay State Park, and Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
    • Walking 101: Alaska Hiking Trails Guidebooks
    Reviews and synopses of hiking guidebooks from across Alaska.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHCENTRAL: AREAWIDE
    • Anchorage trail maps
    Two maps that provide good information about Anchorage's Trail System are Anchorage Best Trails Map (available for sale at the Anchorage Visitor Information Log Cabin and some sporting goods and bicycle shops) and Anchorage Trails and Parks Map (available at the Anchorage Visitor Information Log Cabin, REI, Anchorage Parks and Recreation Outlets, Public Lands Information Centers, and Alaska Geographic). The trails and park map comes in tear-resistant, water-resistant polyart paper for $10, and regular paper for $5.
    • Kenai Pathways, A Guide to the Outstanding Wildland Trails of the Kenai Peninsula
    Recommended at www.kenaihiking.com
    • Mat-Su Valley Trail Guide
    Valley Mountain Bikers and Hikers have produced a trail guide of mountain biking and hiking trails in the valley. It includes information on 20 trails located throughout the valley, tips on winter biking, color maps, and photographs. The guide is $14.95 and is available at the Mat Su Visitor Center, in Palmer at Backcountry Bikes and Fireweed Books, and in Wasilla at Pandemonium Books and Annabell's Books.
  • ALASKA -- INTERIOR: AREAWIDE
    • The Arctic Audubon Hiking and Birding Guide for the Fairbanks
    This full-color map and guide has descriptions of several Fairbanks area trails and is especially useful to get an overview of some trails in the greater Fairbanks area. It is available at Gulliver's Books, the Alaska Bird Observatory, the Farmhouse Visitor Center at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, and the Map Office at the Geophysical Institute.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHEAST: AREAWIDE
    • Juneau Area Trails Map
    The Alaska Region Forest Service has a trails map of the Juneau area. The map is printed on lightweight plastic, so it is waterproof. The map covers an area from Bishop's Cove south of Juneau, north to Echo Cove, and includes the northern half of Admiralty Island, Mansfield Peninsula and Point Retreat. The map is available for $10 at the Juneau Ranger District, Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, and the Regional Office in the Federal Building during regular business hours.
  • ALASKA -- SOUTHWEST: AREAWIDE
    • Unalaska Island Trails
    Unalaska island, one of the Aleutian Islands and home to Dutch Harbor, has many miles of hiking trails. The map is available at the Ounalashka Corporation offices in Unalaska. People who would like to purchase the map but don't live on Unalaska can call the corporation at 907/581-1276 or can write to: Ounalashka Corporation; P.O. Box 149; Unalaska, AK 99685.