Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 2 - Parks, Recreation, and Public Use › Chapter 12 - Public Use › Article 1 - State Park Land and Water Restrictions › 11 AAC 12.035 - Snowmobiles

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may
				  operate a snowmobile in an area of a state park that the director has posted as
				  open to the use of snowmobiles.
(b) The director may post all or portions of
				  the state parks listed below as open to use of snowmobiles if the director
				  finds that there is adequate snow depth to protect underlying vegetation and
				  use of snowmobiles does not present a hazard to other park users and park
				  resources:
(1) Big Lake North and South State
				  Recreation Sites;
(2) Birch Lake
				  State Recreation Site;
(3) Blair
				  Lake State Recreation Area;
(4)
				  Blueberry Lake State Recreation Site;
(5) Captain Cook State Recreation Area,
				  within the following areas:
(A) Stormy Lake
				  boat launch access road;
(B) Stormy
				  Lake;
(C) the gas pipeline right of
				  way;
(D) the 50-foot wide corridor
				  area adjacent to the Kenai Spur Highway;
(E) the Cook Inlet beach access
				  road;
(6) Chena Pump
				  State Recreation Site;
(7) Chena
				  River State Recreation Area north of the Chena River, west of the south fork
				  valley, and north of the east fork valley;
(8) Chugach State Park, within the following
				  areas:
(A) the Eklutna Lake Basin from the
				  Eklutna Lake Campground to the wilderness boundary, excluding the Twin Peaks
				  Trail, the Bold Ridge Trail, and the East Fork of the Eklutna
				  drainage;
(B) the designated
				  snowmobile corridor from Peters Creek trailhead and the Peters Creek drainage
				  up valley of the posted sign near the intersection of the snowmobile corridor
				  with Peters Creek and down valley of the wilderness boundary within Section 19,
				  T14N, R2E, Seward Meridian;
(C)
				  Little Peters Creek or Ptarmigan Valley drainage and adjacent land north of
				  Meadow Creek drainage, except for the NW 1/4 of Section 21, T15N, RIW, Seward
				  Meridian;
(D) the Ptarmigan Valley
				  Trail from the Old Glenn Highway to Ptarmigan Valley;
(E) the Eagle River water course and gravel
				  bars downstream of the confluence of Icicle Creek and Eagle River located in
				  Section 25, T13N, RIE, Seward Meridian, excluding the South Fork and Meadow
				  Creek;
(F) the snowmobile corridors
				  from the Eagle River Nature Center, North Fork Eagle River Access Day Use Area,
				  and Eagle River Greenbelt Access Trailhead;
(G) the designated snowmobile corridor from
				  Upper Huffman Trailhead to a point where the corridor intersects a straight
				  line made between the top of False Peak and Flattop Peak, and extending from
				  that point up valley within the South Fork Campbell Creek drainage;
(H) Bird Creek drainage downstream of the
				  traffic control device south of the Quartz Creek ford;
(9) Clam Gulch State Recreation
				  Area;
(10) Clearwater State
				  Recreation Site;
(11) Denali State
				  Park;
(12) Donnelly Creek State
				  Recreation Site;
(13) Eagle Trail
				  State Recreation Site;
(14)
				  Fielding Lake State Recreation Site;
(15) Harding Lake State Recreation
				  Area;
(16) Indian River State
				  Recreation Area;
(17) Johnson Lake
				  State Recreation Area;
(18) Kenai
				  River Special Management Area, within the following areas:
(A) Kenai Lake, from December 1 through April
				  30 annually; and
(B) Skilak Lake,
				  in accordance with 50 C.F.R.
				  36.39(i)(4), revised as of
				  October 1, 2020 and adopted by reference;
(19) Lake Aleknagik State Recreation
				  Site;
(20) Lake Louise State
				  Recreation Area;
(21) Lower
				  Chatanika State Recreation Area;
(22) Moon Lake State Recreation
				  Site;
(23) Nancy Lake State
				  Recreation south of the Nancy Lake Parkway;
(24) Quartz Lake State Recreation
				  Area;
(25) Salcha River State
				  Recreation Site;
(26) Tok River
				  State Recreation Site;
(27)
				  Tokositna State Recreation Area;
(28) Upper Chatanika State Recreation
				  Site;
(29) Willow Creek State
				  Recreation Area;
(30) Wood-Tikchik
				  State Park; and
(31) Worthington
				  Glacier State Recreation Site.