Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
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Noatak River, Gates of the Arctic National Park (Al Smith/National Park Service)

You know you must be heading somewhere incredible when you have to pass through stone gates thousands of feet high to get there—and the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve lives up to its impressive entryway. Read More »

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Highlights

There are no man-made trails to follow in this remotest of national parks, but there are ruts or paths left by hundreds of thousands of migrating caribou. The herds leave sun-bleached antlers the size of tree branches in their wake, and some areas feel like a boneyard due to generations of shedding.
The park's dramatic title was coined by legendary wilderness advocate and far-north explorer Robert Marshall, who described two peaks, Frigid Crags and Boreal Mountain, as the gates from Alaska's central Brooks Range into the arctic regions of the far north.
This is wilderness-recreation nirvana for the hard-core, where the backcountry backpacking, river running, mountaineering, and dogsledding is out of this world.

By Travel Expert: Karen Kefauver

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