How much does a hunting lease cost in Alaska?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Alaska typically asks about $6,069 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $3,694 and $9,507. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

What is the average price per acre for hunting land in Alaska?

About $20.23 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 17% above the national median of $17.32. Per-acre rates fall as properties get larger, so this figure is quoted at a fixed 300 acres to stay comparable between states.

Are these Alaska lease prices what hunters actually pay?

No. Every figure here is an asking price — what landowners list at, not what a lease finally closes for. The model is fit on listing data, so it reflects what a property is likely to be advertised at.

How reliable is the Alaska estimate?

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median. It rests on 3 filtered lease listings from Alaska. Across all states, roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, and state and acreage together explain about a quarter of the variation in asking price.

Hunting Lease Prices in Alaska

$6,069

per year · 300 acres · Alaska

Comparable properties list $3,694–$9,507, or about $20.23 per acre.

That is 17% above the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Alaska 10 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Thin data

3 Alaska listings

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median.

By property size

Typical Alaska lease prices

Yearly asking prices for a property with no amenities or premium habitat specified. Adding food plots, a cabin or a trophy species raises the estimate; the calculator below accounts for those.
Property size	Typical asking price	Usual range	Per acre
40 acres	$3,339	$2,137–$5,142	$83.47
100 acres	$4,381	$2,804–$6,747	$43.81
250 acres	$5,750	$3,680–$8,854	$23.00
500 acres	$7,062	$3,736–$11,602	$14.12
1,000 acres	$8,674	$3,793–$15,202	$8.67
2,500 acres	$11,382	$3,870–$21,730	$4.55

The market

Hunting Alaska

Three quarters of Alaska is open to public hunting, which is most of why a private lease market barely exists here. What little does trade is usually access to remote private inholdings or guided-camp arrangements rather than the season-long acreage leases the rest of the country runs on. Treat any Alaska estimate as a rough national benchmark rather than a read on a functioning market.

Nationally, Alaska has among the most public hunting ground in the country — ranking 2 of 50 states at 74.3% public. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Moose
Caribou
Black bear
Brown bear

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	74.3% of the state 271,174,000 acres · 2 of 50
Leased for	Moose, Caribou, Black bear, Brown bear

Within the state

Where Alaska prices differ

The $20.23 per-acre figure above is a Alaska average. These are the sub-markets it averages over, and they do not trade alike:

Directional, not measured — the estimate is fitted at state level and has no sub-state resolution.
Interior	Vast road-limited country where access, not ownership, is the whole problem; effectively no lease market.
Southeast and coastal	Native corporation and private inholdings where what trades is guided access rather than an acreage lease.

Your property

Price your own Alaska land

The table above assumes nothing about your land beyond its size. Add your game species, habitat, forage and amenities for an estimate that reflects the property you actually have.

Calculate a Alaska lease price

Nearby markets

How Alaska compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Alaska.
State	Per acre	vs. Alaska
Michigan	$20.16	lower
Alabama	$20.24	higher
Indiana	$20.26	higher
Delaware	$20.60	higher

Methodology

How we estimate Alaska lease prices

The estimate comes from a model fit on 979 filtered hunting lease listings across 48 states. A state's rate and the way price scales with acreage are both measured from that data. 3 of those listings were in Alaska, so the Alaska rate is pulled most of the way back toward the national median, which is what the model does when a state cannot support its own estimate.

Three things are worth knowing before you quote these numbers:

These are asking prices. They are what landowners list at, not what a lease closes for.
State and size explain about a quarter of the variation. Roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, which is what two features can support — it is the honest width of the answer, not a rough edge waiting to be tuned out.
The land and deer figures above are context, not inputs. They come from Backcountry Chronicles (public hunting acreage) and the National Deer Association's 2024 Deer Report (2022 buck harvest). Neither feeds the estimate, and both correlate only weakly with what states actually charge.
Habitat, game and amenity adjustments are expert judgement, not fit from data — the listing feed does not carry those fields. They are set to be neutral on an average property, so they nudge the estimate rather than drive it.