Alaska and ATVs

I rode my ATV out to Wal-Mart last night and as I was getting ready to leave a couple and their kids paused to talk to me about my riding the ATV to the store. They said that they had a couple of ATVs, but they only used them for fishing and hunting since they had no idea what the rules were about riding ATVs around in Alaska, particularly to the store or something.

I'm going to start doing some more in-depth looking into it, since I've been riding back and forth to the store for a while now and passed more than a few State Troopers and even a few of the local police stations, and none of them seem to bat an eye at me riding along the trails by the roads (dirt trails, please stay off the paved bicycle path unless it's under special circumstances - my POV, not something anyone told me).

So, I'm going to look around and see what I can dig up on what the official rules, if any, are for ATV operation in Alaska.

So far I know that you have to stay off paved roads except to cross them or to get from one trail to the next for a VERY short distance. I'm gonna see what else I can find and put it up on AlaskaATV.info when I get the chance later.