Shuyak Island State Park
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Shuyak Island State Park is an approximately 47,000 acre Alaska state park on most of
Shuyak Island Shuyak Island is an island in the northern part of the Kodiak Archipelago in the state of Alaska, USA. It is located just north of Afognak Island, separated from it by the narrow Shuyak Strait. The Stevenson Entrance to Cook Inlet separates it f ...
in the
Kodiak Archipelago The Kodiak Archipelago (russian: Кадьякский архипелаг , translit = Kad'yakskiy arkhipelag) is an archipelago (group of islands) south of the main land-mass of the state of Alaska (United States), about by air south-west of A ...
. The park includes a coastal forest of
Sitka spruce ''Picea sitchensis'', the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft). It is by far the largest species of spruce and the fifth-larg ...
, coastline, beaches, and waterways. The park contains four cabins for recreational use and is only accessible via air or water.


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State parks of Alaska Protected areas of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska {{Alaska-protected-area-stub