Bodenburg Butte, Palmer

Lots of stairs, but super worth it at the top!! This is my second time up, and I still enjoyed it.

Beautiful views. If you hike up one trail you may want to go down that same trail. We started at The Butte Trailhead (Sandvik Family Trail) and came down the other side, on the stairs and ended up at the West Butte Trailhead. We aren't from the Palmer/Wasilla area so we didn't know what to expect. There didn't appear to be a direct route back (without hiking back up and down again) to our starting point so we had to walk 5 miles around, on the Bodenberg Loop road, to get back to the car. We enjoyed the hike, and detour back to the car, even if we didn't know exactly where we were going.