1958 Map of Mount McKinley C-6

About this map

Snohomish Hills and the prominent Munsatli Ridge dominate the northern terrain of this Alaska interior quadrangle during the mid-1950s. The landscape is a complex web of muskeg and water, defined by a dense concentration of named lakes such as Fish Creek Lake, Thirtyeight Mile Lake, and Sprucefish Lake. Transport through this wilderness relies on established routes like the Winter Trail and various other marked trails, which connect remote outposts and unnamed cabins to larger water bodies like Lake Snohomish. The presence of Carls Cache Lake and Otter Lake in the southeast suggests a landscape shaped by subsistence trapping and seasonal travel. This 1958 survey captures a remote subarctic environment before significant modern development, where the network of drainages like Fish Creek and Lonestar Creek dictated movement across the Yukon-Koyukuk region.