Welcome to Alpine Historical Park

Alpine Historical Park is a popular stop along the Glenn Highway National Scenic Byway where history, nature, and culture come together through Athabascan culture, coal mining, and Glenn Highway construction. Powerful wind and water carved the Matanuska Valley and continue to shape this corridor, while loess-rich soils, fossils, petrified wood, and coal reflect the area's natural history. The park includes recorded stories and songs in the Athabascan Winter Lodge, the Lucas House that served as a Chickaloon mine officer's quarters, the Mary Geist House with the original Old Timers Hall of Fame, the first Sutton Post Office next door, exhibits in the Bunk House on Ahtna Athab[a]scan culture, coal mining, and highway construction, and the mining and road construction Powder House beside the washery foundation. The corridor's cultural history was shaped by people who lived here for thousands of years and by more recent arrivals who sought the area's bounty and built new lives, including Ahtna Athabascans, coal miners, railroad workers, and homesteaders.

Lazy Mountain, Alaska · United States