Some residents are furious about a newly constructed trail that will link Arctic Valley Ski Area with Eagle River’s South Fork Valley, saying it will draw more people to an already dangerously overcrowded neighborhood trailhead.
Hiland Road resident Erik Fredeen speaks during a meeting with Rep. Kelly Merrick, Alaska State Parks director Ricky Gease, and Chugach State Park superintendent Ben Corwin at the South Fork trailhead parking lot on Thursday in Eagle River. Fredeen works on trail issues with the South Fork Community Council.
Last Thursday, about 45 neighbors confronted Chugach State Park officials and Eagle River state Rep. Kelly Merrick at the South Fork trailhead parking lot, rimmed with spent fireweed and dwarf spruce bleeding into tundra. As the meeting unfolded, an excavator building the controversial trail chugged across the mountainside in the distance.
For their part, Chugach State Park officials and advocates of the project say the Muktuk Marston and Hunter Pass trails have already been used informally for decades, and that professionally built routes will make them last well into the future. The trails have been used informally for many years and have been part of the Chugach State Park Trail Plan since 1986, wrote Blythe Marston, the granddaughter of Muktuk Marston and a leader of the trail development project.
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