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Part of the larger Municipality of Nature Center highlights the historical, Dena’ina Athabascans, it is the oldest
Anchorage, EAGLE RIVER is located about natural and recreational resources within inhabited location in the Anchorage
15 minutes from downtown via the fully lit the Park. area. The melding of Russian Orthodox
six-lane stretch of Highway 1 through the Christianity in the mid-1800s with native
picturesque Alaskan wilderness. Nestled A mile past the Eklutna River Gorge practices resulted in the brightly colored
at the juncture of two major river valleys, and Thunderbird Falls, the Native Village spirit houses in the heavily photographed
the community is situated between the of EKLUTNA lies 26 miles northeast of cemetery, in use since 1650 and now an
Elmendorf-Richardson military complex Anchorage on Glenn Highway #1. First historical park.
and Chugach State Park. The Eagle River settled more than 800 years ago by the

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