Overview

Last seen: May 13, 2011, at approximately 7:00 p.m.
Location: Travis Walker Spurling’s cabin on Telemark Trail in the Two Rivers area near Fairbanks, Alaska.
Age when missing: 22.
Main circumstances: Travis was last seen at his cabin. The area surrounding the cabin was searched, but he was not located. His disappearance was reported to Alaska State Troopers on May 14, 2011. He remains listed as missing, with no publicly announced determination that he died or was the victim of homicide. NamUs lists the case as MP61338, while the Alaska State Troopers case reference is 110043738.

Detailed Case Breakdown

Travis Walker Spurling Missing Person Case: The Unsolved 2011 Disappearance in Two Rivers, Alaska

More than fifteen years after 22-year-old Travis Walker Spurling disappeared from the Two Rivers area near Fairbanks, Alaska, the question of what happened to him remains unanswered.

Travis was last seen on May 13, 2011, at approximately 7:00 p.m., at his cabin on Telemark Trail in Two Rivers. The location lies within the Fairbanks North Star Borough. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the area around his cabin was searched after his disappearance, but Travis was never located.

Travis Spurling Disappears From His Two Rivers Cabin

The circumstances publicly available about Travis Spurling’s disappearance are unusually brief.

On the evening of Friday, May 13, 2011, Travis was reportedly at his cabin on Telemark Trail. At approximately 7:00 p.m., he was last seen there. What happened after that point has never been publicly established.

The disappearance was reported to the Alaska State Troopers on May 14, 2011, one day after Travis was last seen. Search efforts focused on the area around his cabin, but investigators and searchers did not find him.

A May 20, 2011 report from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner stated that Alaska State Troopers were asking the public for assistance locating Travis, who by then had been missing for approximately one week.

What Travis Spurling Was Wearing

At the time of his disappearance, Travis was described as a white male who stood approximately 6 feet tall and weighed about 180 pounds. He had sandy-colored hair and green eyes.

NamUs information reproduced in current case records lists his clothing and accessories as:

• A black ZZ Top T-shirt
• Black Carhartt pants
• Black cowboy boots
• A brown cowboy hat

These details remain important because no publicly reported discovery of Travis, his clothing or other property has resolved what happened after he was last seen at the cabin.

Search of the Telemark Trail Area

The area around Travis’s cabin was searched following his disappearance. Official case information does not provide a detailed public account of the individual search operations, personnel involved, search radius or evidence collected.

What is confirmed is much simpler: the area around the cabin was searched, and Travis was not found.

That distinction is important. Some later online descriptions characterize the surrounding terrain and suggest theories about what could have happened, but the publicly available official record does not establish whether Travis left voluntarily, became lost or injured, encountered another person, or was the victim of a crime.

His fate therefore remains undetermined.

Alaska State Troopers Case 110043738

The disappearance is associated with Alaska State Troopers case number 110043738. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System lists Travis under NamUs MP61338.

The Alaska Missing Persons Clearinghouse continues to provide a statewide contact for information concerning missing-person cases, while the current Alaska Department of Public Safety directory lists a Fairbanks State Troopers post for the region.

The Case Entered NamUs Years After the Disappearance

Although Travis disappeared in 2011, his NamUs record was created years later. Current NamUs-derived information lists the case as having been entered into the national system in November 2019.

The NamUs case remains publicly accessible as MP61338, preserving Travis’s identifying information, last-known location and circumstances of disappearance.

The continuing presence of the record should not, by itself, be interpreted as evidence of new investigative activity. It does confirm that Travis remains represented in the national missing-person system.

Renewed Online Attention to Travis Spurling’s Disappearance

Although major news coverage of the case has been limited, Travis’s disappearance continues to circulate through missing-person databases and online communities.

A Missing Northwest Facebook post has continued to identify Travis as missing from Two Rivers since May 2011 and references Alaska State Troopers case number 110043738.

A Websleuths discussion dedicated to Travis was created in January 2026. The thread reproduces his NamUs information and references the original May 20, 2011 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner report in which Alaska State Troopers asked for the public’s assistance.

CaseTrace also continues to display a missing-person flyer identifying Travis as 22 when he disappeared and noting that he was last seen at his Telemark Trail cabin on May 13, 2011.

These renewed online postings do not represent new evidence, but they keep Travis’s name and case information accessible to people who may recognize him or remember circumstances surrounding his disappearance.

Latest Publicly Available Investigation Information

As of August 2026, Travis Walker Spurling remains publicly listed as missing.

The current NamUs record remains accessible as MP61338, and a CrimeSolvers Central case record carrying information sourced from the case was marked updated on August 11, 2026. That record continues to identify Alaska State Troopers as the primary agency and lists case number 110043738.

No publicly available law-enforcement announcement located for this review reports that Travis has been found, that remains have been identified as his, that an arrest has been made, or that authorities have officially reclassified his disappearance as a homicide.

Accordingly, descriptions of Travis as a confirmed homicide victim—or claims identifying a person responsible for his disappearance—would go beyond the publicly established evidence.

What Remains Unknown

The fundamental questions surrounding the disappearance have remained unresolved since 2011.

Public records do not explain why Travis disappeared from the Telemark Trail area, whether he left his cabin on foot or by vehicle, where he may have gone after approximately 7:00 p.m., or whether another person was involved.

There is also no publicly announced resolution explaining why the search of the area around the cabin failed to locate him.

For investigators, Travis’s family and those who continue sharing his case, the most important potential evidence may therefore still be information held by someone who remembers events surrounding May 13, 2011.

The Search for Answers Continues

Travis Walker Spurling was only 22 years old when he disappeared from Two Rivers.

His case has now crossed the fifteen-year mark, but the basic circumstances remain unchanged: he was last seen at approximately 7:00 p.m. at his cabin on Telemark Trail, the surrounding area was searched, and he was never located.

Anyone with relevant information—including information that may have seemed insignificant in 2011—can contact the Alaska State Troopers or the Alaska Missing Persons Clearinghouse and reference case 110043738 or NamUs MP61338. Current Alaska Department of Public Safety contact information is included below.