Alaska Trails, the organization promoting the Alaska Long Trail project, says it's “realistic” to expect the stretch from Seward to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to be done in about 10 years. But the rest will take longer. (From alaskabeacon)
, when there were two serious accidents, one of them fatal. Getting a new crossing at the site is important to Alyeska Resort and other tourism operators in the area, Johnston said. “It’ll reopen a loop which had been closed for a while,” she said.
that passed in December, she said.Of the projects vetoed last year, some wound up with other sources of funding, and some have been resubmitted to the Legislature as requests this year, Haley said.She pitched the connected trail system as an economic opportunity that is embraced by the tourism industry and by local communities along the route. The Appalachian Trail, for example, attracts 3 million hikers a year who travel along portions of it, she said.
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