Hut Proposal & Related Documents

Alaska Huts does not yet operate any huts or trails but is working with Chugach National Forest to develop a solid hut-to-hut proposal. Links below include one-page fliers that answer some basic questions about the developing concept.

As of 2008, our organization is preparing proposal documents related to huts along the Alaska Railroad’s backcountry whistlestop project.  Click the link below for a brief concept description, which is a work in progress and is likely to change.  We welcome comments on this concept.  In September 2004, we submitted an ambitious “Mills Creek-Iditarod Trail Hut-to-Hut System” proposal to Chugach National Forest. We submitted a required refinement, the “Master Development Plan” or MDP, to the Forest Service in 2005. The MDP provides greater site-specific detail and operating detail.  The documents are included below for reference, as the basic concept is similar, and the locations overlap, but the 2004 and 2005 documents do not entirely reflect the current concept under development.

The proposed whistlestop hut-to-hut project consolidates the combined Forest-Service-and-Alaska-Railroad Whistlestop Project and the proposed hut-to-hut project in a way that reduces overall impact and reduces the overall fundraising need for new cabins and trails on the northern Kenai Peninsula.  In what we hope will be a win-win situation, Alaska Huts will be able to assist the Forest Service in funding components of the Whistlestop Project, and the Alaska Huts will be able to benefit from the trails, whistlestop shelters, and interpretive signs already underway in the beautiful Upper Placer River valley in an area of three glaciers that flow from the same icefield.  This area lies about halfway between Seward and downtown Anchorage, and the corridor is part of the greater Iditarod National Historic Trail system.

 
 

The following links to older proposals provide detailed background on the ultimate vision for huts in Alaska.