Gulkana Alaska Map
Explore Gulkana, Alaska, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of Gulkana, Alaska
How to Use This Gulkana, Alaska Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gulkana, Alaska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alaska or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Gulkana.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Gulkana |
| State | Alaska (AK) |
| County | Copper River |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) |
| Latitude | 62.215434 |
| Longitude | -145.444965 |
| Population | 110 |
| Density | 1.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 99586, 99588 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| School District | Copper River School District |
About Gulkana, Alaska
Gulkana is a locality in Copper River, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 110. The population density is 1.2 people per km². Gulkana is located at 62.2154°N, 145.4450°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP codes: 99586, 99588.Gulkana stretches across a vast expanse of subarctic terrain where the Gulkana River carves a restless, silty path through the earth. It lies 135.0 miles east-northeast of North Lakes, AK (from North Lakes, AK: bearing 69°T), and is situated 84.9 miles north-northeast of Valdez. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity, carrying the scent of spruce needles and the cold breath of distant ice. To the east, the jagged, snow-dusted summits of the Wrangell Mountains dominate the horizon, standing as silent sentinels over the sprawling taiga. The landscape is defined by this immense scale, a quiet wilderness of muskeg and woodland where the light at dusk lingers in thin, violet ribbons, turning the sky into a bruised canvas that seems to stretch forever.
Gulkana serves as a rugged gateway to the interior, positioned only a short distance from the wild, protected borders of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve. The rhythm of life in Gulkana follows the seasonal turning of the woods, supported by a history rooted in the movement of people and resources across the interior plateau. While Ewan Lake remains a quiet, sequestered mirror fifteen miles away, the local economy remains tethered to the land’s resources and the vital arteries of infrastructure that cross the plains. Life here is measured by the steady, unpretentious labor of those who know how to navigate the brush and the long, deep winters, maintaining a quiet resilience that mirrors the endurance of the surrounding landscape.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 5.6 mi, 130° SE · 4.3M acres
- Copper River Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 6.8 mi, 034° NE
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (National Park) — 10.3 mi, 082° E · 8.0M acres
- Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 18.4 mi, 101° E · 9.7M acres
- Gulkana River (Wild & Scenic River) — 21.3 mi, 353° N · 93k acres
- Alaska Yaks (Attraction) — 43.3 mi, 149° SE
- Delta River (Wild & Scenic River) — 53.9 mi, 340° N · 44k acres
- Trooper Bruce A. Heck Monument (Monument) — 66.2 mi, 249° W
- Richardson Monument (Attraction) — 66.9 mi, 357° N
- Nellie Juan-College Fiord Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 68.2 mi, 211° SW · 2.2M acres
- Chugach National Forest (National Forest) — 72.8 mi, 174° S · 5.4M acres
- Gilahina Trestle (Historic Ruins) — 77.8 mi, 133° SE
- Rudleston Falls (Attraction) — 79.6 mi, 191° S
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About This Gulkana Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gulkana, Alaska. Coordinates: 62.215434, -145.444965. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Gulkana includes the ZIP code (99586, 99588), telephone area code (907), county seat of Copper River, and school district assignment (Copper River School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
