Wood-Tikchik State Park

Wood-Tikchik State Park in southwest Alaska is a vast protected wilderness organized around the Wood River and Tikchik lake systems. Encompassing more than 1.6 million acres, it makes up over half of Alaska’s state park land and protects major salmon spawning habitat, including all five major salmon species. The area was inhabited for centuries by Yup'ik people, then explored by a Russian expedition in 1818, which established a fur trading post active until the Alaska Purchase in 1867. Established by the Alaska State Legislature in 1978, the park remains largely undeveloped, remote, and closely linked to surrounding public wilderness.

Aleknagik, Alaska · United States