Trails - Denali Nordic Ski Club

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At Denali Nordic Ski Club, we provide Alaskans with consistently groomed cross-country ski trails, easy to use maps, and the very latest updates on trail conditions.

Latest Trail Reports

Talkeetna Trails

Tigger Lake Loop

Z Lake Loop

Ermine Trail

Mink Trail

Su-Valley Trail

X-Lake Loop Trail

Talkeetna Trails

This map is of public groomed winter trails in the Talkeetna Lakes area accessed from Comsat or Whigmi trailheads. It is interactive when using the free Avenza app. Download the map, save it to your device, and simply upload it to Avenza!

Ski Hill Trails

Ski hill is a great skate trail! But, it can be challenging for a beginner skier. On the map the trail is the separate trail found on the left side. To get there – park at the Overlook coming into Talkeetna (on the left) at mile 12.5. Walk or ski uphill on the roadside trail about 100 meters. Look for the trail entrance on your right. Great skate skiing on the hilly 2.5 km trail. Skiers only! No dogs, snowshoes, bikes, or sleds. Also no tracks set.

Ridge & Fish Lake

This map is of public groomed winter trails in the Ridge and Fish Lake area. It is interactive when using the free Avenza app. Download the map, save it to your device, and simply upload it to Avenza!

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What We Groom

Fish Lake: This includes a small overland section from the new borough parking lot onto the lake.
Ski Hill: This hilly trail is accessed via the overlook parking lot (mile 12.5). You need to walk the bike path south to the trail entrance which is almost opposite the entrance to the Talkeetna Alaska Lodge.
Talkeetna Elementary School: This trail found at the school is short, flat, flat, and through the woods.
Whigmi Road to Talkeetna Lakes: We try and groom a trail from the Whigmi Road parking lot east to Section Line, Heart, and Inlet lakes. In good snowy years we will go to the glacial erratic: these are within the Talkeetna Lakes Park.
Ridge Trail
Christensen Lake
Supporting Borough Trail Grooming: We help out with grooming Borough trails, especially if it snows on weekends.
Private Property: There are many areas where our trails cross or border private property. Please respect all private property and posted signs.

What Borough Grooms

Fish Lake

There is a parking lot just north of the lake. The distances to the lake from the parking lot is 0.7 miles and there is one uphill from the creek and one downhill to the lake. From the lot there is a narrow-ish trail that goes due east for about 50 yards. This joins a snow machined “road”. Stay straight and soon you will cross a creek on a bridge and go up a hill turn right on a wide ski trail and follow this a short way to the next Y, then turn right again. Follow the trail down to the lake itself. There is no other legal access to the lake. The club grooms a wide skate lane and classic track that roughly follows the perimeter of the lake; approximately two miles.

**This includes a small overland section from the new borough parking lot onto the lake as well as other trails within the Fish Lake Recreation Area.

Grooming Report

Facebook Trail Updates: Both DNSC and the Borough update the DNSC Facebook page regularyly. Please add your own report to our FB page.
Statewide Trail Conditions on SNOWIO: DNSC upddates SNOWIO which is a resource on trail conditions statewide.
Share Your Own SNOWIO Report: YOU can help by adding your own report to Snowio. Do make sure to tag with "Talkeetna Area Trails" or "Talkeetna Lakes Park." The Borough grommers do not update using Snowio.
Winter Trail Grooming: Check out your favorite trails on the Borough's Winter Trail Grooming Map to see if they have been groomed for winter fun.

Dog Friendly Trails

All dog friendly trails will be clearly marked at the trailhead!