• Image of mountains and river

    Gates Of The Arctic

    National Park & Preserve Alaska

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

  • Hikers in the Oolah Valley

    Explore Gates of the Arctic

    Begin your adventure and exploration of the park & preserve here.

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  • A drawing of a prehistoric hunter hunting from the sea ice edge.

    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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  • A musher and dog team travel across a wide open snowy tundra landscape towards distant mountains in winter

    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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  • A lake in the boreal forest & mountains

    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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  • Monolith Inuksuk

    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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  • A multimedia feature about dog mushing in Gates of the Arctic

    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.

It can get below freezing and snow in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve any month, even in July.