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Public toilets in Alaska, commonly called washrooms, are found at a rate of nineteen per 100,000 people. A law banning pay public toilets was created in the 1970s.

Public toilets
washroom is one of the most commonly used words for public toilet in the United States.

A 2021 study found there were 19 public toilets per 100,000 people.

In 2018, Lonely Planet labeled the public toilets  outside the Chena Hot Springs Resort as one of the fifteen most interesting in the world. It is an outdoor toilet on the bank of a creek that is used exclusively by employees at the resort and Ice Museum.

History
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, public pay toilets were viewed by feminist activists as sexist because public urinals were free but public sit style toilets were not. The Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, more commonly known as CEPTIA, tried to change this by getting municipals on public pay toilets. Their first success was in Chicago in 1973. This was then followed by municipal and state wide success in a strong of additional states including Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

Eight new public toilets were created at Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve in the late 1990s in response to increased visitor numbers. This was part of the reason that that in 1999 the National Park Service asked for an increase of USD$128,000 for park operations.