page_title: Chester Creek (Alaska)
section_title: Chester Creek Trail
hierarchical_section_title: Chester Creek (Alaska) / Chester Creek Trail
caption_attribution_description: Ray Redington Jr Ceremonial start of 2010 Iditarod in Anchorage
context_page_description: Chester Creek is one of several streams that flow through the city of Anchorage, Alaska. It runs for 21 miles from the Chugach Mountains to the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet.
  The creek connects a number of parks, open spaces, and lakes to form a green corridor running from east to west through the city. A paved trail follows the creek for part of its course through the areas from Goose Lake to Westchester Lagoon.
  The Chester Creek drainage roughly includes most of the old City of Anchorage.
context_section_description: Like its designation as a greenbelt, the development of the trail into an integrated exercise and transit thoroughfare was pushed by activist citizens. Lanie Fleischer, in 1972, organized the Anchorage Bike Committee with a cohort of other Anchorage citizens. After a successful 'bike in' that drew some 300 residents, city planners began to move forward with a dedicated pedestrian path along the Chester Creek in 1973.  This was the first of what was to become a network of multi-use trails within the city.
  Renamed the Lanie Fleischer Chester Creek Trail in 1994, the four mile long trail is popular with cyclists in summer, and skiers in winter. A comprehensive three year improvement project for the trail, with an estimated cost of US$3.2 million, began in 2012.
  During the summer of 2015, the trail became the subject of a week-long interaction between a group of artists and users of the trail. The project called Seeking the Source, was aimed at finding out what experiences and recollections the residents of Anchorage had about the trail, and what part it plays in shaping perceptions of the local geography, its wildlife and community.
caption: Chester Creek Trail in winter
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