Alaska Hunting License Cost: $45.00 and Up
A Alaska resident hunting licence is $45.00, and it is the first of two purchases
What a season in Alaska actually costs to start
A resident hunting licence in Alaska is $45.00, sold as the Resident Annual Hunting. An Alaska resident pays $45.00 and needs a locking tag only for brown bear in some places and for muskox, while a visitor pays $160.00 and then buys a tag for every big game animal, from $300.00 for a deer to $800.00 for a moose, and both licences stop at the end of December. The licence and the tags that sit on top of it are listed below at the prices Alaska Department of Fish and Game prints, each one linked to the page it was read from.
- Resident licence $45.00, the Resident Annual Hunting
- Nonresident licence $160.00
- The licence runs runs a hunting licence to 31 December whatever month it was bought in
- Hunter education required of anyone born on or after 1986
Alaska Department of Fish and Game sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.
Every Alaska hunting licence, at the price Alaska Department of Fish and Game prints
Thirteen tags and permits were read off Alaska Department of Fish and Game's own fee pages for Alaska, each one priced below with the row it sits in. A tag is a second purchase, and the licence price on its own is the first half of what a season costs.
- Resident Annual Hunting$45.00
hunting for an Alaska resident, who needs a locking tag only for brown bear in some places and for muskox
annual
Resident Annual Hunting | $45.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Nonresident Annual Hunting, Small Game only$60.00
small game only, with no big game of any kind
annual
Nonresident Annual Hunting – Small Game only | $60.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Nonresident Annual Hunting$160.00
hunting for a visitor, with a locking tag bought on top for every big game animal
annual
Nonresident Annual Hunting | $160.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Nonresident Alien Annual Hunting$630.00
hunting for someone who is neither a citizen nor a United States resident, with a locking tag on top for every big game animal
annual
Nonresident Alien Annual Hunting | $630.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Senior Resident Permanent Identification Cardfree
hunting, sport fishing and trapping for a resident of sixty or over, for as long as they stay a resident
permanent
Alaska residents who are 60 years of age or older and meet the Department of Fish and Game's residency definition are eligible for a permanent identification card in order to hunt, sport fish, or trap for free.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Resident Annual Low Income Sport Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping License$5.00
fishing, hunting and trapping together at the low income rate for a resident
annual
Resident Annual Low Income Sport Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping License | $5.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Resident Annual Sport Fishing and Hunting License$60.00
sport fishing and hunting together for a resident
annual
Resident Annual Sport Fishing and Hunting License | $60.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Nonresident Annual Military Hunting$45.00
hunting at the resident price for someone on active duty and stationed in Alaska
annual
Nonresident Military Fishing & Hunting Licenses: (must be on active duty and stationed in Alaska) | Nonresident Annual Military Hunting | $45.00
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
When a Alaska hunting license expires Calendar year
Alaska runs a hunting licence to 31 December whatever month it was bought in. A licence bought in November is a licence with weeks left in it. The price is the same one printed beside the licence bought in January. 9 of the 50 states read here do this, against 9 that run a licence a full year from the day of sale, and the price is identical in both.
An Alaska hunting licence runs to the end of the calendar year whatever month it was bought in, and the free harvest tickets that go with a general season hunt run on a different clock again.
Licenses are valid from the date of purchase through December 31st of each calendar year. The exceptions are trapping licenses and short-term non-resident fishing licenses.Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Alaska hunter education: born on or after 1986
Alaska hangs hunter education on a birth date rather than on an age: the requirement reaches anybody born after 1986. Every state that publishes a cutoff publishes a different one, and across this reading they run from 1949 to 1986, which is why a national answer to this question is always wrong somewhere.
Alaska asks for the course only in named places: Units 7, 13, 14, 15 and 20 and a handful of refuges and management areas, where an adult born after the cutoff must hold it and anyone under eighteen must either hold it or stay under direct supervision.
Requirements for hunters before hunting in Units 7, 13, 14, 15, and 20: If you were born after January 1, 1986 and are 18 years old or older , you must have successfully completed a hunter education course before you hunt in the units listed above.Alaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Who counts as a Alaska resident
Alaska draws the resident line at 365 days, and the difference between the two sides of it is $45.00 against $160.00. The statutory definition is quoted below.
Alaska Resident per AS 16.05.415(a): "resident" means a person (including an alien) who is physically present in Alaska with the intent to remain indefinitely and make a home here, has maintained that person's domicile in Alaska for the 12 consecutive months immediately preceding this application for a license, and is not claiming residency or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency in another state, territory, or countryAlaska Department of Fish and Game, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it
Alaska works the way most of the country does. Of the 50 states read here, 39 sell the tag apart from the licence and 11 print it on the licence instead. Where the tag is separate, the middle state adds 95% to the licence price before anybody has left the driveway.
Resident licences across these states run from $10 to $64.54, and nonresident licences from $50 to $410, which is the widest spread on any licence this site has read. 25 states run a licence year of their own, 9 give a full year from the day of sale, and 9 end it on 31 December whatever month it was bought.
The national table puts Alaska beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game read 23 September 2026, with every licence price, tag price, expiry rule and hunter education cutoff above linked to the page it came from. Fees are set by statute or by a commission and change between seasons, so the agency page beside each figure is what governs on the day. Tags on top