Alaska lawmakers approved $3.7 million in funding for nine projects that are part of an integrated trail system that proponents hope will rival the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast and the Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast.
The biggest project approved would put just over $1 million toward creating a 25-mile connection between Turnagain Arm and the northern area of Anchorage.
A long stretch of the Seward-Fairbanks route would fall in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, where a proposed Assembly resolution opposes National Scenic Trail designation.
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