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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Overview
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Gates of the Arctic National Park
Established: 1980
Acreage: 8,472,506
Average Yearly Visitors: 4,800
Location: Central Brooks Range, northern Alaska
Contact Details
Gates of the Arctic National Park
National Park Service (Fairbanks Headquarters)
201 First Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: 907-457-5752
E-mail: GAAR_Visitor_Information@nps.gov
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- 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.
Published: 22 Oct 2008 | Last Updated: 15 Sep 2010
Details mentioned in this article were accurate at the time of publication
Details mentioned in this article were accurate at the time of publication
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