Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve · Alaska

Nugget Creek Trail

14 mi of trail, end to end · about 1,000 ft of climbing · 1,633 ft–2,569 ft · native surface · trail class Moderately Developed · atv, hiking

Trailhead Nugget Creek Trailhead 1,637 ft Drive there

On the parks map

Other trails from the Nugget Creek Trailhead

Nugget Creek Access Trail · 2.5 mi
Kotsina River Access Trail · 0.7 mi

All 41 trails in Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve Find a trail On the parks map Park on nps.gov

About this trail's facts

The lines are the National Park Service's public trails layer, the trailheads and the waterfalls, views, peaks and historic places along them the Service's public points of interest, read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end. The write-ups are the Service's own "things to do" text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the park's own site before you go.