Plan Tatshenshini-Alsek Park with Haines Highway hikes, world-class river trips, bear-resistant food storage, UNESCO context, snowmobile zones, and rugged weather.
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park protects glacier-cloaked peaks, wild rivers, grizzly bear habitat, and part of the world’s largest internationally protected area. BC Parks notes that it borders Kluane, Glacier Bay, and Wrangell-St. Elias parks and belongs to a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Haines Highway parallels the park, and all hiking trails are accessed from that highway.
Why Visit Tatshenshini-Alsek Park
This is one of northern British Columbia’s great wilderness parks. Visitors come for world-renowned Tatshenshini and Alsek river trips, alpine hiking, wildlife viewing, winter recreation, and views toward Mount Fairweather, British Columbia’s highest peak at 4,633 metres.
Chuck Creek Trail is the park’s only maintained hiking trail, a 12-kilometre one-way route from the Haines Highway. Other routes follow old mining roads and require navigation. The park also offers fishing, authorized horseback riding, hunting, and limited snowmobiling in a designated zone.
Things To Do
Hike Chuck Creek Trail or old road routes, raft or kayak only with proper remote-river preparation, fish with the correct licence, view wildlife from a distance, request permission for horses, hunt under current rules, and use the designated snowmobile zone only where allowed.
Planning Notes
Weather is highly variable; snow can fall any day of the year, high winds are common, and fog can make route-finding difficult. There are no roads through the park, and off-road motor vehicles are prohibited except specific snowmobile-zone and Indigenous harvesting exceptions. Overnight users must bring certified bear-resistant food storage except at Chuck Creek caches. Turnback Canyon on the Alsek is extremely hazardous and not recommended.