There is still plenty of land available for purchase in The Last Frontier; wilderness and wildlife are not in short supply.
Two practical difficulties with rural Alaskan
real estate however comprise the trade-off for untrammeled natural beauty and
solitude; the first is ACCESS, and
the second is ELECTRICITY if you
happen to want it.
Million dollar views abound; however, in most
situations, if you’re not a bush pilot with your own plane and a landing strip
it may well cost you that much over a lifetime just getting back and forth.
Living “off the grid” with generator power sounds
really neat at first until you just can’t take the sound of the generator any
longer. Not to mention the costs and headache of keeping enough gasoline on
hand remotely to power the generator.
5000-6000kW isn’t a whole lot of power, either.
If living in Alaska’s
wilderness is your dream, but you also have a foot in the real world, consider
the new town of Glacier View, and in particular check out CHUGACH VISTA LOT 6.
It’s a little over an
hour’s drive from Palmer, situated in the stunning Matanuska headwater valley
just three miles from the glacier, and comprises a 12.6 acre south – facing lot
taking in the full expanse of the Northwestern corner of the Chugach Range
(from King Mountain to Mt. Wickersham.)
Oh, and it has road
access – it sits 1/3 mile north of the Glenn Highway, and has a pad ready for
building or driveway or parking lot (we were going to build just a little
northeast of the pad and use the pad as a garage area.)
Oh, and it has
electricity. (And a great school - http://www.matsuk12.us/Domain/633 )
Glacier View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, located at
61°49′7″N 147°42′53″W (61.818532, -147.714741) with a
population of 234 in 2010
