Chitina Native Corporation

Chitina Native Corporation

Chitina Native Corporation is a wholly owned native corporation in the Ahtna Region with 282 shareholders who live statewide and in the lower 48 states.

Chitina Village is located at mile 34 of the Edgerton Highway, about 53 miles southeast of Copper Center and 66 miles southeast of Glennallen. The town of McCarthy is approximately 63 miles past Chitina. It is located in the heart of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Reserve. The Wrangell, Black Burn, Mount Drum and Sanford mountains can be seen beautifully from the corporation’s Wrangell View RV Park.

Chitina Native Corporation owns a campsite at O’Brien Creek where fishing is abundant. Tourists are encouraged to visit the O’Brien Creek Recreation Area where for a small fee you can dipnet for salmon, hike and camp in one of the most beautiful spots in the world.

Chitina (pronounced CHIT-NA) is famously known from the exploration of the Copper River Northwestern Railway and Copper Mine development in Kennicott, which put Chitina on the map. After mine activities closed in 1938, Chitina became a virtual ghost town with only the original residents and a few homesteaders remaining. Today Chitina provides access to some of the best and the most extreme dipnetting fishery in Alaska. Permit purchase is required to access dipnetting and recreational sites which require crossing Chitina Native Corporation lands.