Chilkoot Lake, Oct. 24, 2023. (Chilkat Valley News file photo)

One of the most widely used campgrounds in the Chilkat Valley is closed.

The Alaska Division of Parks, part of the Department of Natural Resources, has decided not to open the Chilkoot Lake State Recreation Area campground this summer  

“[It’s] kind of an alarming development,” said borough mayor Tom Morphet during Tuesday evening’s assembly meeting. He said he wasn’t sure what was driving the closure,…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...