Located on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska, the Thunder Bird Falls Trail is an easy and beautiful way to squeeze a little adventure into your day trip.
Thunder Bird Falls Trail in April
The Thunder Bird Falls Trail is a short hike. It spans only one mile. The trail is relatively wide, well-trodden and runs through a boreal forest in Chugach State Park. Along it, in a deep canyon, flows the Eklutna River.
Guardrails set up a barricade between hikers and the deep ravine below from time to time. These wooden “structures” become your essential assistants that let you elevate your feet by placing them on the lower bar and awkwardly proceed forward. The alternative is to tramp straight through large muddy puddles that occasionally pop up on the trail during the shoulder seasons in Alaska.
This is precisely what the Thunder Bird Falls Trail looked like when we hiked it at the end of April…