Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: multiple blueberry types in full flower along with other berry plants flowering (nagoonberry, highbush and lowbush cranberry).
July 26
Nordic trails, Girdwood: Forest- Picked Alaska and Early blueberries. Enough berries are ripe to go picking, but plenty are still green. Trailing black currants and trailing raspberries are plentiful and almost ripe. Perfect watermelon berries, elderberries, and reddening highbush cran plentiful here (like everywhere). In the meadows- cloudberries are plentiful and perfect/tasty! Really good bog blueberries too. Bog cranberries red but not ripe.
July 18
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, Wasilla: Lots of perfect nagoonberries! Also ripe black currants and a few good red currants still. Highbush cranberry early red.
July 3
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Highbush cranberries have big green berries. Serviceberries are half green/blue.
July 16
Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants are red but tart still. Some raspberries are ready but sickly this year. Highbush cranberry berries are beginning to redden. Green rosehips.
July 3
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked red currants, ready and nice. Some blueberries ready but mostly too green, look good. Some red bearberries ready. Crowberries look ripe but aren’t. Raspberry, lowbush/highbush cranberry all have green berries. Nagoonberry still flowering.
July 20
Resurrection Pass Trail, Hope: Lots of red currants, watermelon berries, and trailing raspberries. High and lowbush cranberries are half ripe. Tons of baneberry, blooming purple and white flowers like monkshead, jacob’s ladder, cow parsnip, etc.
July 26
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Lots of really good red currants. Very tasty and ripe. Lots of half ripe highbush cranberry. Some nice watermelon berries. Also lots of soapberry and baneberry around. Also rosehips ready.
July 31
Fish Creek, Knik: Lots of ripe highbush cranberries and half ripe ones.
July 27
Marsh land, Big Lake: Many ripe timberberries by the lake. Some bog blueberries, very ripe. A few cloudberries. Picked an okay amount of blue and a little bit of cloud. Saw half ripe highbush cranberry.
