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 State of Alaska > Natural Resources > Parks and Outdoor Recreation > Alaska Trails |
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Lower Sheenjek River Water Trail |
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This map is not intended to be used as a navigational aid.
Visitors can access the lower Sheenjek River using wheel aircraft landing on gravel bars within the lower river, or by floating into the lowlands from the upper Sheenjek. Road access to the Yukon River upstream from the Porcupine River is available at Circle and downstream at the Yukon River bridge on the Dalton Highway. Flights from Fort Yukon and Fairbanks are available to the Yukon Flats National Refuge. Trail Description: The lower Sheenjek River meanders frequently within cut banks, in a series of large oxbows through the "Flats," an area of muskeg (wet tundra) amd tiaga forest having more than 20,000 lakes. The river furnishes access to the lowlands area that is very difficlut to reach in summer and offers excellent opportunities for wildlife viewing along much of the route, watercraft exploration in sloughs and lowland hiking in selected, less difficult areas of terrain. Many intereiting features and environments exist in the lowlands, including micro-environments, oxbow lakes, sloughs and other features of an active alluvial river. Log jams are common and frequently large enough to dam the river flow and create channel changes the form some of the sloughs and oxbows. |
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Last updated on Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
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