National Park Guide

Gates of the Arctic Field Guide

A complete planning guide to Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Covers the park's complete lack of roads, trails, and campgrounds, how to plan a bush plane trip from Fairbanks through Bettles or Coldfoot, the central Brooks Range and the Frigid Crags and Boreal Mountain peaks that gave the park its name, the Arrigetch Peaks granite spires, floating one of the park's six Wild and Scenic Rivers including the Alatna, John, Kobuk, Noatak, and Tinayguk, caribou migration through the Western Arctic and Central Arctic herds, Nunamiut Iñupiat culture at Anaktuvuk Pass, and the official NPS park map.

What's inside

• ✓No roads or trails in — planning a bush plane trip from Fairbanks, Bettles, or Coldfoot
• ✓The Frigid Crags and Boreal Mountain peaks that gave the park its name, and the Arrigetch Peaks spires
• ✓Floating one of six Wild and Scenic Rivers, from the Alatna to the Noatak
• ✓Nunamiut Iñupiat culture at Anaktuvuk Pass, the only community inside the park