Alaska Administrative Code
Title 11 - Natural Resources
Part 2 - Parks, Recreation, and Public Use
Chapter 20 - State Park Land and Water
Article 1 - Chugach State Park
11 AAC 20.045 - Recreational gold panning
Current through February 24, 2025
Recreational gold panning is allowed in Chugach State Park with the following stipulations:
(1) no motorized equipment is used;
(2) a person uses no more equipment than a gold pan and a shovel;
(3) no chemicals are used;
(4) anadromous fish streams are only open to recreational gold panning between May 16 and July 14 annually;
(5) no person may stake or file a mining claim or leasehold location in a state park; and
(6) no person may extract or disturb natural material for the purposes of recreational gold panning above the ordinary high water line or where live vegetative matter exists.
Authority:AS 41.21.020
AS 41.21.040
AS 41.21.121