The Lower Chatanika State Recreation Area is a 400-acre recreation area with fishing access, camping and picnicking. Lower Chatanika State Recreation Area include Olnes Pond and Whitefish campground at mile 11 of the Elliott Hwy.
The Upper Chatanika State Recreation Site, at mile 39 of the Steese Highway, is popular with highway travelers and weekend campers from Fairbanks. It has 25 campsites, four picnic sites, drinking water and latrines. There is a road to a gravel bar where visitors can camp, picnic, sunbathe, or fish. Canoers and rafters launch their boats here for an all-day-float on the Chatanika River, ending at the Lower Chatanika State Recreational Area, at mile 11 of the Elliott Hwy. dnr.alaska.gov/parks/units/chatanik.htm
The area north along the highway was burned in a massive forest fire that closed the highway in 2015 and can now be an interesting roadside study area of vegetation succession recovering from the event.

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