Botanical Walking Trail
The Botanical Walking Trail offers the perfect opportunity to take in the beautiful flora of the Alaskan wilderness. This trail is located near building 17; to get to the trail from the lodge you will go out the front doors and then turn to your right on the lodge road. You will walk by the parking lots located on your right until you see building 17 (two-story building on the right hand side). Next walk towards building 17 but before arriving at the building stay right and the trailhead will be found at the corner of the road which leads behind building 17. The length of the Botanical Walking Trail is about one half of a mile (three quarters of a kilometer) and follows fairly even terrain (only one very short steep incline). Interpretive placards along the trail identify about 25 different plants. The food, medicinal and traditional uses discussed on this trail are for the most part site specific. The Dena'ina (Tanaina) Athabascans inhabited this area and it is their utilization of the local flora that is presented. Some of the plants you may see on this trail include: shelf mushrooms, high-bush cranberries, club moss, dwarf dogwood, old man's beard lichen, several varieties of fern, and many others.
