Sep 21 2024
Kobuk Valley National Park is unlike almost any other national park in the United States. Located above the Arctic Circle in northwestern Alaska, it has no roads, developed campgrounds, marked hiking trails, entrance station, or conventional visitor facilities. Instead, its main attractions are enormous natural landscapes: golden sand dunes surrounded by boreal forest, a broad …
Jun 29 2024
Kobuk Valley National Park protects one of the most unusual landscapes in the American national park system: a vast Arctic valley where golden sand dunes rise more than 100 feet above tundra and boreal forest, the Kobuk River winds between distant mountain ranges, and migrating caribou follow routes that people have depended upon for thousands …
