Sheep Camp Campground Relocation - Environmental Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact

The National Park Service (NPS) prepared an environmental assessment (EA) to relocate the recreational Sheep Camp Campground and a portion of the Chilkoot Trail from their current flood-prone locations to nearby sites with reduced flood and erosion potential. Sheep Camp Campground is a primitive backcountry facility with twenty campsites (serving up to fifty campers per night during the peak season) located twelve miles up the rugged Chilkoot Trail in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

The purpose of the proposed project is to improve the safety of visitors hiking the Chilkoot Trail, alleviate sanitation concerns, eliminate further degradation of floodplain values, and enhance backcountry operations.

Six parties provided comments during the EA public review period. Four parties provided substantive comments, and the NPS response to these comments is provided in the attachment to this Finding of No Significant Impact. No changes were made to the EA.

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Sheep Camp Campground Relocation - Environmental Assessment   (1.4 MB, PDF file) Finding of No Significant Impact   (126.1 KB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.