National Park Guide

Kobuk Valley Field Guide

A complete planning guide to Kobuk Valley National Park. Covers the park's total lack of roads, trails, and campgrounds and what that means for first-time visitors, how to actually get there by bush plane or riverboat out of Kotzebue, the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes rising above the Arctic Circle, paddling the Kobuk River, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd's fall migration across Onion Portage and its 9,000 years of continuous human use, Inupiat subsistence culture and etiquette, bear and weather safety with no rescue nearby, and the official NPS park map.

What's inside

• ✓Why there are no roads, trails, or campgrounds and how to plan around that reality
• ✓Getting there by bush plane or riverboat out of Kotzebue, Bettles, Kiana, or Ambler
• ✓The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes — 25 square miles of ice-age sand above the Arctic Circle
• ✓The Western Arctic Caribou Herd's migration across Onion Portage and Inupiat subsistence etiquette