Gates of Artic National Park and Preserve

The Gates the Artic National Park and Preserves resides in Alaska's Brooks Range. This vast area of natural beauty contains rugged mountains, wild rivers, glaciated valleys, boreal forests and artic tundra vegetation. The area is inhabited by wolves, caribou, Dall sheep, and both the grizzly and blackbears.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter designated this area as a national monument. In 1980, Congress passed the Land Claims Act, creating 106 million acres of new protected lands in Alaska. The final boundaries for Gates of the Artic National Park and Reserve encompass eight million cotiguous acres.

The entirely of the park lies north of the Artic Circle and is nothernmost national parkin the United States. There are no established roads, trails, visitor facilities or campgrounds in the park. Access into the park is by charter plane.

Ten small comunnities are within the resident zones for the park and are home to  approximately 1,500 people. Many of these residents depend on resources within the park to sustain their lively hood and maintain cultural traditions.

Interesting fact: Chert i9s a fine-grained rock, used by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Brooks Range to create tools such as scrapers, knives, and spear points. The Brooks Range contains one of the riches deposites of “tool quality” cherts in the world.

Park Service Informationa Office
Gates of the Artic National Park and Preserve
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Park Headquaters
102 Elk Creek

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