Goose Lake Park Survey – share your ideas!

A popular destination since the 1950s, Goose Lake is centrally located at Northern Lights Boulevard and UAA Drive. The park includes a sandy beach, playgrounds, trails, a basketball court, and a picnic pavilion. It also contains wetland and upland forests, native plants, and wildlife habitat.

Love this park? Share your ideas by filling out the survey. It closes February 20. Find the survey here: https://www.muni.org/Departments/parks/Pages/GooseLakeMasterPlan.aspx

Park users can enjoy a groomed Nordic ski loop on the lake when conditions allow in winter, and get access to winter-only bike and ski trails at APU.

Anchorage Park Foundation recently curated a 3 mile walking loop that can be done year round – with grooming provided by Anchorage Parks and Recreation and UAA. It’s called the Goose Loop. A fun place to start is at Goose Lake Park and trails, where it then weaves throughout the UMED district – through the UAA Campus, Alaska Airlines Center, the UAA Dorms, Providence, and back around to UAA Drive and to Goose Lake Park. It’s a fun way to learn the UMED neighborhood. You also have access to the Chester Creek Trail that will take you downtown or continue around the city on the Moose Loop trails.

Goose Loop Map

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After the 2018 earthquake, the Municipality determined that the lakeside facility – home to the much-loved paddleboat cafe,  was unsafe for public use. A new Master Plan will ask the community what would make this park great for future generations and how we should prioritize park improvements.

Anchorage Park Foundation dreams of a new facility that could have a restaurant or coffee shop and be a place you could rent for birthday parties and weddings and enjoy the gorgeous view.