Tangle Lakes
| Tangle Lakes | |
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 Round Tangle Lake with nearby peaks of the Alaska Range | |
  Tangle Lakes | |
| Location | Alaska |
| Coordinates | 63°01′40″N 146°03′41″W / 63.02788°N 146.06152°W |
The Tangle Lakes (Long Tangle Lake, Lower Tangle Lake, Round Tangle Lake, and Upper Tangle Lake[1]) are a 16-mile (26 km) long chain of lakes connected by streams in interior Alaska. They form the headwaters for the Delta River.
Access and use
The main public access to the Lakes is from a Bureau of Land Management maintained campground and boat launch at Round Tangle Lake, about 20 miles (32 km) from Paxson on the Denali Highway. The boat launch is also the upper terminus of the Delta River Canoe Trail, a 2-3 day route to the Gulkana River and the Richardson Highway.[2] The lakes support many species of fish, including lake trout, burbot, and Arctic grayling. The area around the lakes consists mostly of tundra due to the high elevation (2,864 feet (873 m)).
History
Tangle Lakes Archeological District | |
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
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| Location | Address restricted[4] |
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| Nearest city | Paxson |
| NRHP reference No. | 71001091[3] |
| AHRS No. | XMH-201 |
| Added to NRHP | November 12, 1971 |
The Tangle Lakes area has been the subject of extensive archaeological exploration. Prior to 1976, almost 150 sites had been discovered showing that The Tangle Lakes have been populated intermittently since the settlement of the
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Copper River Census Area, Alaska
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Lakes portal
References
- ISBN 978-1892-15426-2
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tangle Lakes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- OCLC 20706997.
- ^ F. H. West. "Old World Affinities of Archaeological Complexes from Tangle Lakes (Central Alaska)". Beringia in the Cenozoic Era. Ed. V. L. Kontrimavichus. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1984. 571-596.
Further reading
- Pellerin, L. (2003). Magnetotelluric data in the Delta River Mining District, near the Tangle Lakes area of south-central Alaska [Open-file Report 03-328]. Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
External links
- Fish Alaska Magazine
- Lonely Planet Alaska
- BLM Alaska
- Unofficial Guide to Adventure Travel in Alaska
- Archaeology of Prehistoric Native Alaska
- BLM Tangle Lakes Archaeological District trail brochure
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