Chilkoot Lake State Park

America Outdoors outfitters offer hiking, backpacking, mountain biking and kayaking tours and wildlife photography in the Chilkoot Lake State Park.

The park is at the south end of Chilkoot Lake, near the outlet of the lake to the Chilkoot River. Park Facilities include a 32-site campground, picnic shelter, and boat launch. The campground sits amid a beautiful stand of Sitka spruce.

The park and surrounding area offers some of the best salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska, with four salmon runs, starting in mid-June and ending in mid-October. Because of the salmon spawning in the river and at this end of the lake, this area is also a bear highway. Bears come down from the tundra to feast on the salmon. Please learn proper bear/human etiquette - this protects both you and the bears.