Klutina River

The premier road-accessible sockeye salmon river in the Copper River drainage. The Klutina drains Klutina Lake and flows to join the Copper at Copper Center on the Richardson Highway. Sockeye (red) salmon return to the Klutina in massive numbers each July, and the river supports a very popular dipnet and rod-and-reel sockeye fishery. The upper river above Klutina Lake is Class IV wilderness whitewater; the lower river below the lake is Class II-III and widely floated in rafts. Ahtna-owned land controls much of the river corridor; fee access applies in many reaches.