The Wall
Stretching from The Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet in the west to the Chugash Mountains in the east, the Anchorage Wall sits just north of the Eagle River. The main structure stands between 30 and 100 feet tall and between 8 and 15 feet wide. The tallest section of the wall stretches almost 10 miles between Mt. Baldy and Knik Arm. Smaller sections of the wall stretch south along the Chugash Range, joining fingers of the range across Ship Creek Valley and Eagle River Valley in the east, and along the Knik Arm in the west.
The Wall initially was built in the late ‘40s to hold off the rising tide of the Cook Inlet as well as to create a flood barrier near the Eagle River as glacial melt flooded the river every summer. As more and more immigrants from Canada and the fading United States poured into the growing city-state of Anchorage, Horizon Enterprises recognized it could not sustain the population growth. Efforts began to hold off the flow of immigration, allowing first entrance rights to Native Alaskans. After numerous skirmishes with Anchorage Police and Security forces, construction of the wall began in 2050. The wall was completed in 2056.
