Alaska Nature Guides

09/20/2026

Our hiking season is over, bears are cleaning up the last berries, and they will soon start their long winter nap. Have a great winter, bears and people!

08/08/2026

Today was a perfect day for a Talkeetna Heli Hike with the help of our friends Talkeetna Air Taxi!

08/06/2026

Hats off to Alaska Trails for their Alaska Trails Stewards events like this. In trails maintenance, “a stitch, in time, saves nine.”

06/20/2026

Congratulations to June, who absolutely crushed the Denali Wilderness Hike the day after her 90th birthday. You are an inspiration!

06/10/2026

The wheelbarrowing at Byers Lake today was exquisite!

06/04/2026

Volunteers get it done! Here’s part of the volunteer crew working on the Talkeetna Ridge Trail last weekend. We planted signs, cut roots, and improving drainage. Thanks to all the awesome volunteers and to our project partners the Talkeetna Gear Shop!

05/28/2026

This is one of the four volunteer projects our guides are doing this spring. We love our parks!

Now THAT’S how you kick off the season!

Alaska State Parks Mat-Su Region would like to give a huge shoutout to Alaska Nature Guides, Princess Tours, Friends of State Parks, Mat-Su, and ten rockstar volunteers who rolled up with a chipper and got to work helping Denali State Park staff clean up Veterans Memorial.

This crew brought the energy, the teamwork, lunch, and the muscle to help get the park ready for seasonal openings and we couldn’t be more grateful.

Thank you all for showing so much love for Alaska’s parks and public lands. We appreciate every branch hauled, every hour volunteered, and every helping hand!

05/24/2026

We teamed up with Mt. McKinley Princess Lodge and Alaska State Parks to clean up the Alaska Veterans Memorial in Denali State Park. We thank and salute our veterans, and wish them a safe ride and dry roads on today’s Alaska Vets Motorcycle Run.

05/23/2026

It was an honor and great pleasure to meet Susan Beeman at Beeman’s Cabin on Byers Lake in Denali State Park. Thanks for sharing the stories of your family’s Alaska life and adventures! We can’t wait to tell our guests all about it on our Byers Lake Nature Walk this summer. We spent the rest of the day doing a volunteer trail project to improve the trail for everyone. Thanks Susan!

04/23/2026

Happy Earth Day! Thanks to the Denali Education Center for hosting Talkeetna’s 26th annual celebration. Hailey from the Talkeetna Gear Shop joined us, and we signed up 19 trail work volunteers! Stop by the shop to sign up for our May 30 event on the Talkeetna Ridge Trail.
We had a steady stream of folks perusing our nature curiosities, and our moose nugget game was a big hit with 64 guesses. There were 463 in the jar, so congrats to our winner.
Kudos to Talkeetna for sustaining this wonderful event year after year!