The Alaska Long Trail is a work-in-progress, 500-plus mile multimodal route connecting trail systems from Seward to Fairbanks. Apart from planning and constructing new segments, the AKLT project ...

As they ask legislators to support 21 projects, advocates of a 500-mile trail network say there’s been enough progress to draw long-distance hikers this summer.

Dunleavy in 2022 vetoed $10.5 million 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.

Posted: Sep 13, 2017 / 10:56 AM CDT Updated: Sep 13, 2017 / 10:56 AM CDT In this Sept. 7, 2015 photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife walruses lay on the beach at Point Lay, Alaska.

The Alaska Long Trail was initiated a couple of years ago by Alaska Trails, a nonprofit organization headed by Steve Cleary, working with longtime trail advocates. It would be a 500-mile overland ...

Eventually the Alaska Range relents and gives way to the boggy interior of Alaska. On the other side of the last set of mountains is where it intersects with the Stampede Trail.

On June 19, 40 members of the Pioneers of Alaska from Anchorage, Seward, Homer, Cordova, Juneau and Fairbanks converged for the 7th Annual Pioneers of Alaska Solstice Stampede at the ...