Moose Pass

Geography

Moose Pass is located in the north-central part of the Kenai Peninsula at (60.487778, -149.370833). Surrounded by the Chugach National Forest, it is located south of Anchorage by road, and north of Seward on the Seward Highway along Upper Trail Lake. It is bordered to the south by Crown Point. The CDP extends west along the Seward Highway to its junction with Alaska Route 1 (the Sterling Highway) at Tern Lake, from which point it is a further west to Soldotna, the borough seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Moose Pass CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.94%, are water. Moose Pass has a dry-summer continental subarctic climate (Köppen Dsc).

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Trumpeter/Tundra Swan

  Cygnus buccinator Richardson, 1831 · Aves
  1,074
• Arctic Tern

  Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 · Aves
  932
• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  901
• Common Loon

  Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764) · Aves
  840
• Short-billed Gull

  Larus brachyrhynchus Richardson, 1831 · Aves
  742
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  529
• Common Merganser

  Mergus merganser Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  523
• Greater Scaup

  Aythya marila (Linnaeus, 1761) · Aves
  521

Largest nearby schools

• Moose Pass School
  Elementary · Moose Pass · 19 students · 19:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2026-09-18
  19 km N of Cooper Landing, Alaska
• M 2.7 — 2026-09-17
  11 km SE of Anchorage, Alaska
• M 2.5 — 2026-09-14
  18 km N of Moose Pass, Alaska
• M 2.7 — 2026-09-12
  21 km SSW of Sunrise, Alaska
• M 2.7 — 2026-09-06
  2 km SSW of Chenega, Alaska
• M 2.9 — 2026-09-05
  3 km N of Anchorage, Alaska