Alaska Public Lands
60.8% of Alaska is federal land: 222,373,941 of its 365,481,600 acres (2024 data). The largest federal land manager in Alaska is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with 76,653,680 acres, 21% of the state. Dispersed camping is generally allowed on BLM land for up to 14 days, after which you must move at least 25 miles. This guide covers 35 state parks, 16 National Park Service units, 2 national forests, 1 BLM conservation areas and monuments, and 47 wilderness areas.
Explore Alaska public lands by type
Alaska public land map
- BLM conservation areas and monuments
- National forests
- National parks, recreation areas and monuments (NPS)
- State parks
- Wilderness areas (dashed)
Land managed by (switch layers on or off)
Land ownership: USGS PAD-US 4.1, dissolved by manager and simplified (parcels under about 2 square km not shown). Unit boundaries simplified. Not for navigation or legal boundaries.
List of all 101 places on this map
State parks (35)
- Afognak Island State Park
- Anchor River State Recreation Area
- Big Delta State Historical Park
- Big Lake North State Recreation Area
- Caines Head State Recreation Area
- Captain Cook State Recreation Area
- Chena River State Recreation Area
- Chilkat State Park
- Chugach State Park
- Clam Gulch State Recreation Area
- Deep Creek State Recreation Area
- Denali State Park
- Diamond Creek State Recreation Area
- Ernest Gruening State Historical Park
- Finger Lake State Recreation Area
- Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park
- Harding Lake State Recreation Area
- Independence Mine State Historical Park
- Johnson Lake State Recreation Area
- Kachemak Bay State Park
- Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park
- Lake Louise State Recreation Area
- Lower Chatanika River State Recreation Area
- Matanuska Lakes State Recreation Area
- Morgan’s Landing State Recreation Area
- Nancy Lake State Recreation Area
- Ninilchik State Recreation Area
- Old Sitka State Historical Park
- Petroglyph Beach State Historic Park
- Quartz Lake State Recreation Area
- Shuyak Island State Park
- Totem Bight State Historical Park
- Wickersham State Historic Site
- Willow Creek State recreation Area (Alaska)
- Wood-Tikchik State Park
National parks, recreation areas and monuments (NPS) (16)
- Alagnak Wild River
- Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- Denali National Park & Preserve
- Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
- Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
- Katmai National Park & Preserve
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
- Noatak National Preserve
- Sitka National Historical Park
- Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
- Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve
National forests (2)
BLM conservation areas and monuments (1)
Wilderness areas (47)
- Aleutian Islands Wilderness
- Andreafsky Wilderness
- Becharof Wilderness
- Bering Sea Wilderness
- Bogoslof Wilderness
- Chamisso Wilderness
- Chuck River Wilderness
- Coronation Island Wilderness
- Denali Wilderness
- Endicott River Wilderness
- Forrester Island Wilderness
- Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
- Glacier Bay Wilderness
- Hazy Islands Wilderness
- Innoko Wilderness
- Izembek Wilderness
- Jay S. Hammond Wilderness
- Karta River Wilderness
- Katmai Wilderness
- Kenai Wilderness
- Kobuk Valley Wilderness
- Kootznoowoo Wilderness
- Koyukuk Wilderness
- Kuiu Wilderness
- Maurelle Islands Wilderness
- Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
- Mollie Beattie Wilderness
- Noatak Wilderness
- Nunivak Wilderness
- Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
- Pleasant/Lemusurier/Inian Islands Wilderness
- Russell Fjord Wilderness
- Saint Lazaria Wilderness
- Selawik Wilderness
- Simeonof Wilderness
- South Baranof Wilderness
- South Etolin Wilderness
- South Prince of Wales Wilderness
- Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
- Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
- Togiak Wilderness
- Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
- Tuxedni Wilderness
- Unimak Wilderness
- Warren Island Wilderness
- West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
- Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
Who manages Alaska's land
| Agency | Acres | Share of Alaska |
|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Land Management | 71,105,178 | 19.5% |
| U.S. Forest Service | 22,132,738 | 6.1% |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 76,653,680 | 21% |
| National Park Service | 52,456,775 | 14.4% |
| Department of Defense | 25,570 | 0% |
| All federal land | 222,373,941 | 60.8% |
Source: Congressional Research Service, Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data (R42346), 2024 data, checked 2026-09-30.
Camping on Alaska public land
Dispersed camping is generally allowed on BLM land for up to 14 days, after which you must move at least 25 miles. (BLM Alaska, checked 2026-09-30.) See Alaska BLM units for each area's own rule.
Free dispersed camping is also allowed on Chugach National Forest .
35 of Alaska's state parks have developed campgrounds on record; compare them in the Alaska state parks table.
Common questions
- 60.8% of Alaska is federal land: 222,373,941 of its 365,481,600 acres (2024 data).
- 71,105,178 acres, 19.5% of the state (2024 data).
- The largest federal land manager in Alaska is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with 76,653,680 acres, 21% of the state.
- Yes. Dispersed camping is generally allowed on BLM land for up to 14 days, after which you must move at least 25 miles. Individual conservation areas and monuments set their own rules; check each unit.
- This guide lists 35 Alaska state parks and recreation areas, 35 of them with camping on record.
- congress.gov (accessed 2026-09-30)
- blm.gov (accessed 2026-09-30)
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