May Creek Airport guide

May Creek Airport (FAA MYK) is a state-owned, public-use airstrip one nautical mile south of the centre of May Creek, a remote settlement in the Copper River Census Area of Alaska. It sits at an elevation of 1,650 feet in the Wrangell Mountains, inside the area covered by Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. No road reaches May Creek, so the airstrip is the main way in and out.

The airport has one runway, 13/31, which is 2,700 feet long and 100 feet wide with a turf and gravel surface. There is no staffed passenger terminal.

Copper Valley Air Service flies scheduled service to Gulkana, supported by the federal Essential Air Service program. The service is shared with McCarthy and runs a few round trips a week. Enplanements were 28 in 2008, 18 in 2009 and 8 in 2010. The airport recorded 350 aircraft operations in the 12 months ending 31 December 2005, split 57 percent general aviation and 43 percent air taxi.