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Chugach National Forest
Alaska
The litany of place names found in the Chugach National Forest reads like an adventurer's honor roll—there's the Kenai Peninsula, where anglers wrestle with 70-pound salmon; there's Prince William Sound, held in awe by sea kayakers and whale watchers; there are the powder-draped spires of the Chugach Range outside of Valdez, worshipped by fearless skiers and snowboarders; there's even a road, the Seward Highway, that's often singled out as one of the all-time great scenic drives.
At 5.6 million acres, the Chugach National Forest is the nation's second-largest national forest. Its mountains and immense rivers of ice cradle Prince William Sound in south-central Alaska, spreading from the Kenai Peninsula in the west to tiny Cordova and the nearby Copper River Delta—the largest contiguous wetland area on the U.S. West Coast—in the east.
One-third of this majestic and rugged land is rock and moving ice. In the wooded mountains and crystal waters of the Kenai Peninsula, wildlife is abundant and includes moose, Dall sheep, mountain goats, a small but thriving caribou herd, two packs of wolves, and brown and black bears. In the watery realm of Prince William Sound, with its calving glaciers and splintered array of islands, you may see orcas, seals, and immense colonies of seabirds. And there are few wildlife spectacles like the annual gathering of millions of shorebirds on the tidal flats of the Copper River Delta.
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