Outdoors · Glacier View

Glacier View, AK parks, trails & bike paths

About 72% of Glacier View is conserved land, roughly 106,660 acres. There are about 71 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nelchina Public Use Area (18.8 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Glacier View, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Glacier View outdoors

Conserved land
72%
106,660 of 148,686 acres
Trails
71 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 35 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Nelchina Public Use Area

Managed by Alaska Department of Natural Resources
55,012 acres18.8 mi of trail
Pinochle-Hicks Creek TrailBoulder Creek TrailSquaw Creek TrailCaribou Creek-Alfred Creek TrailCaribou Creek Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Matanuska Glacier State Recreation Site

Park
37 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Glacier View
Mount Monarch7,064 ft elevation · In Nelchina Public Use Area
Directions
Gunsight Mountain6,440 ft elevation
Directions
Strelshla Mountain5,351 ft elevation
Directions
Lion Head3,186 ft elevation
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 7.3 miHorses 2.3 miUnpaved 47.1 mi
Showing 1–10 of 24 trails
  • Pinochle-Hicks Creek Trail12.6 mi
  • Boulder Creek Trail6.0 mi
  • Squaw Creek Trail5.7 mi
  • Purinton Creek Trail3.3 mi
  • Old Glenn Highway3.2 mi
  • Pinochle Circle1.8 mi
  • Teepee Ridge Off-Road Trail1.3 mi
  • Fossil Beds Trail1.1 mi
  • Roller Coaster1.0 mi
  • Serpentine0.8 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Showing 1–10 of 13 places

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

106,660 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
105,615 ac
Bureau of Land Management
1,046 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 7 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Multi-sport1
  • Volleyball1
  • Beach volleyball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Glacier View

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Recreation Area 54,620 acState Other or Unknown 50,995 acNational Public Lands 1,046 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Nelchina Public Use AreaState Recreation AreaState natural resources54,603Open
State PatentedState Other or UnknownState natural resources28,224Access unknown
State Tentatively Approved (tad)State Other or UnknownState natural resources17,648Access unknown
State Land Disposals - Other Than MunicipalState Other or UnknownState natural resources2,627Access unknown
State Land Disposals - Municipal PurposesState Other or UnknownState natural resources2,495Access unknown
Glennallen Field OfficeNational Public LandsBureau of Land Management1,046Open
Caribou Creek Recreational Mining AreaState Recreation AreaState natural resources17Open
History

Historic places to visit

Glacier View 4th of July Car LaunchMonument
Nearby

Glacier View and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Glacier View71.7%71.3 mi2
Chickaloon57.5%6.8 mi2
Eureka Roadhouse76.2%70.7 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Glacier View's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 63.9-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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