Talkeetna (Dena'ina: K'dalkitnu) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.

[3] Flightseeing, rafting, mountain biking, homestead tours, hiking, camping, fishing and hunting make up a large portion of the local economy.

The climate is continental subarctic (Köppen: Dfc), assuming some characteristics like warm-summer but the shorter duration of the hot season and long winters give the town boreal features and in terms of vegetation is composed of taiga (Cook Inlet Basin[6]), different from the southcentral coastal more diversified.

It is lighter than Yellowknife, Canada at similar latitudes due to the moderating effect of the Pacific Ocean and the adiabatic warming of the descending air from the surrounding mountains.

Thirty-eight percent of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

On July 25, 2011, the Governor of Alaska signed a bill to construct the dam on the glacier-fed Susitna River.

The Susitna River, America's 15th-largest by volume, flows unimpeded for 300 miles (480 km) from glacial mountains through one of the planet's last wild landscapes to meet the Pacific near Anchorage.

[22][23] The 2009 event had drawn record crowds, resulting in multiple arrests and injuries, including one death.

[33] A popular rumor states Stubbs was elected following a successful write-in campaign by voters who opposed the human candidates.

[35] On August 31, 2013, Stubbs was attacked and mauled by a dog while roaming the streets and after treatment at the local veterinarian returned home on September 9.

A new Susitna Valley Junior-Senior High School opened in January 2010, replacing the one that burned to the ground in June 2007 while repairs were being made to the roof.

[39] In the interim, classes were held in portables on the grounds of the Upper Susitna Senior Center.

Talkeetna has a community radio station, 88.9 KTNA, with locally hosted shows and NPR programming.

Talkeetna has a local newspaper, the Good Times, which has a distribution of 7,500 year-round and serves the communities of Talkeetna, Trapper Creek, Willow, Houston and Big Lake, with additional distribution along the Parks Highway as far north as Nenana during the summer months.

Another newspaper, The Alaska Pioneer Press, which was under different ownership and was published monthly, ceased publication in January 2011, after its owners moved out of the area.

Legendary bush pilots such as Don Sheldon and Cliff Hudson, both based out of Talkeetna, pioneered glacier flying on Denali (formerly Mount McKinley).

In season 2 episode 16, the host travels to the Roadhouse, a restaurant in Talkeetna, to sample their unique breakfast dishes.

The town of Cicely from the television series Northern Exposure has been said that it could be patterned after Talkeetna by a journalist,[46] but it has not been confirmed by any cast member.

The show has three seasons and deals with the lives of people who work the railway, and off-the-grid residents who depend on the railroad for supplies and access to medical facilities.