Lake Hood Seaplane Base

61.1790°N, 149.9620°W · 85 ft elev · FAA: LHD · ICAO: PALH · Adjacent to Ted Stevens Anchorage Intl (PANC)

Lake Hood Floatplanes — North View

–°F reading forecast…

AirNow Air Quality AQI 16 (Good) - PM2.5, Anchorage (Garden)

Alert Status No active NWS alerts for this location.

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Looking north across Lake Hood, with floatplane parking and museum-area buildings along the shoreline.

Lake Hood Floatplanes — East View

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Lake Hood Floatplanes — East View Looking east toward Lake Spenard — plane parking in the foreground, the high-speed taxiway channel in the middle, the low-speed taxiway behind it, and the Chugach Range in the background.

FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (East)

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FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (East) East-facing view (90°) from an FAA aviation weather camera near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, a few miles from Lake Hood.

FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (South)

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FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (South) South-facing view (170°) from an FAA aviation weather camera near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, a few miles from Lake Hood.

FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (Southwest)

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FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (Southwest)

Southwest-facing view (235°) from an FAA aviation weather camera near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, a few miles from Lake Hood.

FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (Northwest)

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FAA Weather Camera — Anchorage, AK (Northwest)

Northwest-facing view (310°) from an FAA aviation weather camera near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, a few miles from Lake Hood.

Looking north across the International Airport Road / Jewel Lake Road intersection, about two-thirds of a mile from Lake Hood.

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International & Jewel Lake — North

Looking east across the International Airport Road / Jewel Lake Road intersection.

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International & Jewel Lake — East

Looking south across the International Airport Road / Jewel Lake Road intersection.

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International & Jewel Lake — South

Looking west across the International Airport Road / Jewel Lake Road intersection.

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International & Jewel Lake — West

Live air traffic control audio for the shared Anchorage Tower frequency (118.3) — not exclusive to Lake Hood, even though Lake Hood has its own separate tower frequency (126.8) on paper.

[ atc_audio — LiveATC.net ]🕐 41 days

Live ATC Audio — Anchorage Tower

Tracks nearby wildfire incidents within 50 km — not yet active.

[ incident_tracker — NIFC WFIGS ]🕐 41 days

NIFC WFIGS Incident Tracker

1 M2.5+ earthquake within 50 km in the last day: M2.8, 2 km ENE of Big Lake, Alaska (about 39 km away).

[ seismic — logged ]🕐 41 days

USGS Recent Earthquakes

No nearby earthquakes M2.5+ in the past 24 hours (within 5 km).

[ seismic_activity — logged ]🕐 7 hrs

Nearby Earthquakes

This Afternoon: Light Rain Likely. 59°F, wind 0 mph

[ weather_forecast — logged ]🕐 7 hrs

NWS Forecast

PALH 091853Z 19005KT 10SM -RA OVC050 12/09 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP135 P0002 T01170094 — Lake Hood has its own reporting station, separate from Anchorage International.

[ weather_observation — NOAA AWC ]🕐 41 days

Live METAR — PALH