You may know that the almost 17 million acre Tongass is the the largest US National Forest, but did you know that…
Tongass National Forest Facts
- established in 1907
- Headquarters (Supervisor’s Office) in Ketchikan
- largest national forest in the U.S.
- originally managed as 3 areas: Ketchikan, Stikine, Chatham
- stretches nearly 500 miles north to south
- 145 public recreation cabins
- nearly 600 miles of trails
- approximately 11,000 miles of saltwater shoreline
- more than 1000 islands
- contains Prince of Wales Island, 3rd largest island in U.S.
- contains two national monuments: Admiralty Island and Misty Fiords
- includes 5.8 million acres of designated wilderness
Learn more about your own back yard at http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r10/about-region
