Aleknagik (/əˈlɛknəɡɪk/ ə-LEK-nə-gik; Central Yupik: Alaqnaqiq) is a second class city in the Dillingham Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

A weather station was operated between 1958 and 1973; however the climate data has many missing observations and appears slightly irregular, with March in many years being colder than February.

The smoothed data, however, shows March slightly warmer: Wood River and Aleknagik Lake have been used historically as summer fish camps.

The name was described by the resident Yako family in 1930 as meaning "Wrong Way Home", because Nushagak River residents returning to their homes upriver would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River with the tide, inadvertently arriving at Aleknagik Lake.

James Van Stone, an anthropologist who traveled to Saint Petersburg and read diaries of the Russian explorers from 1867, noted that explorers traveled to "Aleknagik Lake" (in a spelling that is Russian but sounds out to Aleknagik).

In 2005, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources applied to own the waterways and compiled an extensive history of the area in their application (see Links below).

The 1929 U.S. Census found 55 people living in the "Wood River village" area to the south.

During 1930, there were five families living on the shores of the lake year-round, the Waskeys, Polleys, Hansons, Yakos, and Smiths.

A log cabin territorial school was built on the south shore of the lake in 1933, and Josie Waskey was the first teacher.

Attracted by the school, other facilities, and plentiful fish, game and timber, a number of families from the Goodnews, Togiak, and Kulukak areas relocated to Aleknagik.

In the mid-1950s, Moravian church members formed a colony on the north shore of the lake, across from the post office.

In fall of 1930, there was one Yupik family living at the top of the Wood River in Aleknagik, and the village grew to about 40 people by 1931.

The local religious mission school, run by Seventh-day Adventists, brought several new families to Aleknagik.

on the 1960 census, and neighboring village of Aleknagik Mission showed 50 residents (for a combined total area of 231).

The North Shore uses eleven shared residential effluent pumps (REP units) which discharge into a piped system.

A third landfill is located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the South Shore, on the West side of the Aleknagik-Dillingham road.

[17] Many residents participate in commercial and subsistence activities on the Bristol Bay coast during the summer.

The "New Aleknagik" airport is a State-owned 2,070-foot-long (630 m) by 90-foot-wide (27 m) gravel airstrip located on the north shore, and regular flights are scheduled through Dillingham.

Moody's Aleknagik Seaplane Base, also on the north shore, accommodates float planes.