Recreation and Road report for July 6 through July 10th

 

Road Conditions/Construction and Logging Activity:

  • Middle Ridge Road is closed until repairs can be completed next year.
  • The mainline, McCormick Creek Road, FS#6265, is washed out and impassable at milepost 13, just past the Highbush Lake Road.
  • The Highbush Lake Road, FS#50040, has a slide across it, but is passable to high clearance vehicles.
  • Forest Service Road FS #6265 (mainline Road to Earl West and Fools Inlet) is closed for construction at the Earl West Bridge – mile marker 12. 
  • This week the WCA crew will be completing work on the Earl West Bridge. 
  • Crews are working on an ongoing daily and weekly report about the washed out road near Earl West.
  • Highbush Lake and Earl West Cove will both be inaccessible until construction is completed.
  • The Nemo loop road, FS #6267, has a slide across it but is passable to high clearance vehicles. 
  • The Forest Service is working towards repairing roads but it is not going to be open anytime soon. Stay tuned for updates.
  • Please stay safe out there!

Anan Wildlife Observatory:  

  •  Anan Wildlife Observatory permit season started July 5th.  
  • There have been a few brown bears around, one sow with 2 cubs, as well as a few black bears, one with triplets. 
  • The fish aren’t in yet, so the bears aren’t hanging out as long but they are definitely around and trying to sniff out if the fish are coming! Tune into Explore.org to watch the bears in the creek. 
  • There are still some permits available for most days on recreation.gov if you have your own boat/floatplane to get there.  
  • If there are no more permits available on recreation.gov for the day you are interested in, 4 permits each day are available through weekly lotteries.
  •  All lottery requests must be made in person at the Wrangell Ranger District office. Weekly requests will be collected by Mondays at 4:30 and awarded on Tuesdays by noon.  

The request schedule for this week is as follows:

For Passes to Visit Anan:Requests AcceptedPasses Awarded
July 19 – 25July 7 – 13July 14
July 26 – Aug 1July 14 – 20July 21
Aug 2 – Aug 8July 21 – 27July 28

Recreational Reminders:

  • The rec. crew repaired the Yunshookuh Loop Campground Road last week.
  • Áax’w Sáani (Little Lakes) cabin construction has begun. Expect short traffic delays on FS road# 6277. 
  • WCA crew is working on rec. site and trails out the road on Wrangell Island. Getting the site ready for the summer season. 
  • Forest Explorers is every Tuesday at Volunteer Trail and Reading with a Ranger is on Thursdays at the library! 
  • Kids are welcome to join the Wrangell Rangers for some fun summer nature activities and crafts.
  •  We hope you have a great day outside! 

This announcement is courtesy of KSTK and your Wrangell Ranger District.