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Southeast Alaska hiking
Visit the Panhandle's gold mines, bears and alpine meadows
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Here are several trails on Douglas Island, across Gastineau Channel from Juneau:
• Moller Cabin Trail, 3 miles each way on Douglas Island. It’s a moderately strenuous hike to a public-use cabin operated by the Forest Service in Tongass National Forest.
• Treadwell Ditch Trail: 12 miles starting at Eaglecrest Ski Road.
• Treadwell Mine Historic Trail starts at the end of St. Anne’s Avenue in Douglas. Memorabilia from the mine, which closed in 1922, may be found along the way. The Juneau-Douglas Museum has a guide, prepared by the Taku Conservation Society, to the site.
• Auke Nu Trail: This trail originates near the Auke Bay Post Office north of Juneau and goes through the Tongass National Forest to branch off toward Spaulding Meadows and the John Muir Cabin, making a pair of 3-mile hikes. The cabin was built in 1980. In winter, this is a ski area.
Check with the Forest Service for information about Juneau-area campgrounds and cabins.
Ketchikan
• Connell Lake Trail: 2 miles along the shore of Connell Lake in berry country. The trail head is at the dam parking lot.
• Naha Trailhead Picnic Area: 1 mile. This loop trail to Roosevelt Lagoon has a lot of black bears, which fish in the stream near the picnic shelters but occasionally take picnickers' lunches.
• Swan Lake Trail: 2 miles. This easy hike goes to Swan Lake and the Swan Lake Picnic Area in upper Carroll Inlet. There is a dock at the trail head. Hikers must check in with Ketchikan Public Utilities caretaker at Swan Lake before beginning their hike. A phone at the trail head is provided for this purpose.
• Perseverance Trail: 2.3 miles to Perseverance Lake. The trail head is an 8-mile drive from Ketchikan, across the road from the Ward Lake Recreation Area and near the entrance to the 3 C's Campground. There includes lake fishing, berry picking and camping.
Check with the Forest Service for information about other Ketchikan-area trails, cabins and campgrounds.
Sitka
• Halibut Point State Recreation Site Trail: 0.5 miles. The easy gravel trail begins at a footbridge that crosses Granite Creek and goes through a forest of Sitka spruce and western hemlock. It forms a loop with spur trails to the beach and picnic shelter.
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