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Alaska
Kobuk Valley
Field Guide
No roads, no trails, no campgrounds — just sand dunes, a wild river, and a 9,000-year-old caribou crossing.
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.
- 14
- pages
- instant download
- Aug 2026
- last updated
What's inside
- 1Why there are no roads, trails, or campgrounds and how to plan around that reality
- 2Getting there by bush plane or riverboat out of Kotzebue, Bettles, Kiana, or Ambler
- 3The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes — 25 square miles of ice-age sand above the Arctic Circle
- 4The Western Arctic Caribou Herd's migration across Onion Portage and Inupiat subsistence etiquette
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The Kobuk Valley guide, page by page
A 14-page print-at-home PDF field guide to Kobuk Valley, Alaska.
- 01Welcome to Kobuk Valley
- 02Rules & basics
- 03First-time logistics
- 04An ocean of sand above the Arctic Circle
- 05Park overview map
- 06Dunes, the river & a migration 9,000 years old
- 07Routes & travel
- 08Wildlife
- 09Weather & when to go
- 10Beyond the trails
- 11Camping & lodging
- 12Pocket cards
- 13Route quick-card
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Instant PDF. Print it, cut out the pocket cards, and go.
$9.99
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