Discover a Premier Wilderness
This vast landscape does not contain any roads or trails. Visitors discover intact ecosystems where people have lived with the land for thousands of years. Wild rivers meander through glacier-carved valleys, caribou migrate along age-old trails, endless summer light fades into aurora-lit night skies of winter. It remains virtually unchanged except by the forces of nature.
Features
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Explore Gates of the Arctic
Begin your adventure and exploration of the park & preserve here.
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The Denbigh Flint Complex: Prehistoric Pioneers
Distant ancestors of modern Inupiat and Inuit, Denbigh people pioneered new new lands and innovated new technologies.
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Of Dogs & Wilderness
In the 50th year of the Wilderness Act, three dog teams mush into a remote area of the park to remove 60 yr old oil barrels from this wild landscape.
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Ambler Access Right-of-Way
ANILCA allows for a transportation corridor across the preserve to provide access for future development of mineral resources in the Ambler area.
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History and Culture
People have lived in the Brooks Range for more than 13,000 years. The History and Culture section of the website can tell you more.
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Traveling through Time
Past and present cross paths on a dog mushing journey through the park.
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Did You Know?
![A July snow dusting tents in the Itkillik valley. A July snow dusting tents in the Itkillik valley.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030744im_/http://www.nps.gov/akr/images/GAAR_snowinjuly.jpg)
It can get below freezing and snow in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve any month, even in July.