Flattop Mountain Shuttle
In Anchorage, Alaska on 4th Ave between C & D

closed for the season.  not taking reservations for 2025 at this time.

click here and read faq 2 for other ways to get to and from the trailhead.




 


This is the shuttle van parked in front of our other business: Downtown Bicycle Rental.
             

4th Avenue between C&DDowntown Bicycle Rental, Sales and Repair Sticker
333 W 4th Avenue






Building where bike rental is located.

Description of service.

FOR ANCHORAGE VISITORS WITHOUT RENTAL CARS WHO WANT TO HIKE FLATTOP MOUNTAIN.  $25. ROUND-TRIP
VAN DEPARTS DOWNTOWN AT OR SHORTLY AFTER 12 NOON.  ARRIVES AT GLEN ALPS ABOUT 1 PM.
VAN REMAINS PARKED WHILE YOU HIKE BY YOURSELF.  3+ HOURS OF HIKING TIME.
EVERYONE MEETS BACK AT THE VAN BY 4.
VAN ARRIVES BACK DOWNTOWN AT 4:30.
TO RESERVE FOR NEXT SUMMER, CLICK HERE TO EMAIL.
NO DEPOSIT/CANCEL ANYTIME
NOT JUST A HIKE.  THIS IS A 30 MILE "LOW KEY" CIRCUIT TOUR OF THE ANCHORAGE BOWL AND AN UNGUIDED MOUNTAIN HIKE ABOVE IT.
A TOTAL OF 7 PEOPLE OR THE EQUIVALENT IN REVENUE ($175) required for shuttle to RUN.
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ONE WAY WITH BIKE ON BACK OF VAN IS $17.

 

Flattop is Alaska's most frequently climbed mountain

3-mile round-trip hike

Elevation gain: 1,350'

Elevation: 3,350'

Great views


A scenic, safe, affordable, independent outdoor afternoon excursion. We drive you 16-miles (37 minutes) from downtown Anchorage (sea level) on the longer more scenic route through the university to the Glen Alps.  (Elevation 2,200')  Van remains parked for about 3 hours while you
HIKE  by yourself.  Click here for How to Hike Flattop direction sheet.
 

Great views reward each footstep.  On average it takes one hour and fifteen minutes to HIKE from the parking lot to the summit. This allows most people ample time to walk around the mountain's flat top.  It takes about 45 minutes to descend. Because there is no guide you can hike as far and as fast or as slow and as little as you like.

A slow or tired hiker can turn around wherever and whenever they want.  Fast, fit hikers can get to the top in about 40 minutes so they sometimes run up to the
second or even the third peak behind Flattop. Up there you can run along a ridge line and unlike on the Flattop trail, up there you will likely be completely alone.

Hikers must begin their descent between 2:45 and 3 pm so that they are back in the parking lot at or before 4 pm which is when the van departs.  We take a different, faster, more direct route back to downtown arriving back at 4:30. 


If you want to rent a bike and take it to Flattop on the back of our van HIKE/BIKE COMBO, you won't be on a schedule because you can ride downhill back into the city whenever you want. 


Membership/supporter

  Visit Anchorage               SINGLETRACK ADVOCATES  

NOTE:  The municipality requires the van to pass a mechanical inspection, pay a $712.50 "Vehicle for Hire Fee" fee, obtain commercial vehicle insurance, and its driver to have a chauffeur's license.