Twin_Lakes_(Alaska)

Twin Lakes (Alaska)

Twin Lakes (Alaska)

Pair of lakes in Alaska, United States

Twin Lakes is a complex of two large lakes in Lake Clark National Park in the U.S. state of Alaska,[1] near the northeast corner of Lake and Peninsula Borough. It contains a 6-mile-long (9.7 km) upper lake and a smaller 4-mile-long (6.4 km) lower lake, joined by a short connecting stream. The lakes outflow westward into the Chilikadrotna River[2] (and eventually into the Mulchatna and Nushagak Rivers and Nushagak Bay). It is quite remote and unpopulated, except in the late summer as it is a popular hunting spot.

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The lake complex was the retirement home of naturalist Richard Proenneke (1916–2003), who spent most (1968–1998) of the last 35 years of his life living there in a log cabin he built by hand. (See One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey and Alone in the Wilderness).[3] It is only reachable by air taxi via a float or a wheel plane.[4]

  • Twin Lakes from Low Pass
  • Proenneke's Cabin

References

  1. [1]
    "Stunning Wilderness". National Park Service. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Lake Clark Brochure" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Proenneke's Cabin". National Park Service. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. [4]
    "How to Visit the Twin Lakes of Alaska". USA Today. USA Today. Retrieved 21 August 2018.


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