Tongass National Forest · Alaska
Salvage Trail
1.6 mi of trail, end to end · imported compacted material surface · trail No. 52791 · trail class 4 · typical grade 8-10% · hiking, bike · seasonal: hiking 05/15-09/15
Trailheads Pipeline Trailhead Drive there · Salvage Trailhead Drive there
Salvage Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up
The Salvage Trail is 1.5 miles long. The trail follows an old gravel-surfaced roadbed with rolling terrain providing flat and easy to hike sections with a few steeper inclines. This trail is linked to the Ward Creek Trail via a tunnel under Revilla Road, providing access to the Ward Lake recreation area. The opportunity for a loop hike exists by linking to the Ward Creek trail via Revilla road and Last Chance Campground and back through the trail tunnel (3.4 miles) to the main trailhead.
This trailhead on fs.usda.gov
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About this trail's facts
The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.
