At Denali Nordic Ski Club, we provide Alaskans with consistentlygroomed cross-country ski trails, easy to use maps, and thevery latest updates on trail conditions.
Length: 3.01 kmTread: 12'-16' wide/classic & skate skiDifficulty: Easy to moderateWinter Activity: Cross-country skiingActivity Summer: Hiking, biking, ridingTrailhead: Whigmi Road Trailhead
Length: 3.14 kmTread: 12-16' wide/classic & skate skiDifficulty: Easy to moderateWinter Activity: Cross-country skiingSummer Activity: Hiking, biking, ridingTrailhead: Comsat Rd/ Whigmi Rd
Length: 0.29 kmTread: 12-16' wide/classic & skate skiDifficulty: EasyWinter Activity: Cross-country skiingSummer Activity: Hiking, biking, ridingTrailhead: Comsat trailhead
Length: 1.21 kmTread: 12-16' wide/classic & skate skiDifficulty: EasyWinter Activity: Cross-country skiingSummer Activity: Hiking, biking, ridingTrailhead: Comsat rd. trailhead
Length: 3 kmTread: 4-12' wide/classic & skate skiDifficulty: Easy to moderateWinter Activity: Cross-country skiingSummer Activity: Hiking, biking, ridingTrailhead: Su-Valley High School
Length: 5.25 kmTread: 2-4' wide/groomedDifficulty: Easy to moderateWinter Activity: Cross-country skiing, non-motorized multi-useSummer Activity: Hiking, bikingTrailhead: Comsat trailhead
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 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.
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- 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.- 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- We help out with grooming Borough trails, especially if it snows on weekends.- There are many areas where our trails cross, or about private property. Please respect all private property and posted signs.
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.
- Trails within the Talkeetna Lakes park. These are the wide skate/classic trails through the woods. They are accessed via the Comsat and Whigmi Road Trailheads.- Groomed skate and classic loops and X Y Z and Tigger Lakes when conditions allow.
- Both DNSC and the Borough update the DNSC Facebook page regularyly. Please add your own report to our FB page.- DNSC upddates SNOWIO which is a resource on trail conditions statewide. - 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.
1. X, Y, and Z Lakes2. Heart and Inlet Lake3. Fish Lake (these are trails on the lakes themselves, not the trails around the lakes)4. Ridge Trail ALL DOG FRIENDLY TRAILS WILL BE CLEARLY MARKED AT THE TRAILHEAD!
