Chugach National Forest
Turnagain Pass, Resurrection Pass, Lost Lake, and other forest winter routes. Check the Forest Service for legal motorized dates and current notices.
BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT
Official places to check before you ride.
Live National Weather Service forecasts are on the conditions desk. This page is a list of official land-manager and avalanche-center sources. It is not a trail-status feed and not an avalanche forecast. We do not post openings, closures, snow depths, or danger ratings here.
A forecast is not a legal opening. An avalanche center’s own advisory is the product to read that morning, not the night before, and not a rating copied onto this site.
Chugach Avalanche Center
Advisories and riding-area notes for Turnagain, Girdwood, Summit, and nearby terrain.
Hatcher Pass
Alaska State Parks posts the snowmachine corridor report. Avalanche advice is separate and comes from the Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center.
Alaska State Parks, Hatcher Pass report · Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center
Eureka, Glenn Highway
The Mat-Su Borough lists the Eureka-area trails it manages. That list is not a verdict on the whole Eureka area.
Thompson Pass
Check the Valdez Avalanche Center and the land manager before you ride.
Summit Lake / Paxson
The Richardson Highway Summit Lake, not the Kenai one. Check the Eastern Alaska Range Avalanche Center.
Denali State Park / Petersville
Alaska State Parks posts a Denali State Park conditions report when one is available.
Denali Highway
Road maintenance and winter travel guidance come from Alaska DOT&PF. This page does not summarize a current road status.
White Mountains NRA and Steese NCA
Winter motorized rules and trail updates for these BLM areas, not every Fairbanks-area trail.
Closed terrain stays closed. Openings depend on the land manager, and often on enough base to protect the vegetation underneath.