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Moose Flats Day Use
Area
Moose Flats Day Use Area is located on the left side of
Portage Glacier Road as one is headed from the Seward Highway up toward Portage
Lake. The blue and gray U.S. Forest
Service sign marks the entrance and will be seen within the first two miles of
Portage Glacier Road. There are picnic tables along the bank of the lake and a
restroom at either end. There is
also plenty of parking with some of the lots designed to allow long RVs to park
and continue straight through back to the road.
There is no fee to use this area. No
overnight stays are permitted. It was an exceptionally warm day so I decided to take
advantage of the lake to cool off. It
always takes a minute or two to get used to the temperature of Alaskan water,
but once I started swimming and acclimated to the water the lake provided a
terrific playground. The end near
the picnic tables is not deep at all so I swam over to the other side where the
water was much deeper. The floating
Swimming in Alaskan waters saps energy from a person’s body very quickly. It is important to get dry and find warmth quickly after leaving the water. The Bantha had been sitting in the sun during our walk and swim, so it made a great warming hut. Last Visited: July 2000
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This is just a fabulous little picnic area.
plumes of algae were not the most pleasant but I just love the way the rays of
light shoot through the clear water all the way to the bottom of the lake.
