The Cottonwood Creek cabin is one of seven chelter cabins within Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. All cabins are first come first served. Kividluk and Good Hope cabins are not suitable for use at this time.
Caribou shed their antlers annually. This antler has been chewed on by small mammals to obtain minerals from the bone. The antler rests in a patch of dwarf fireweed.
In early summer the grasses are turning green below the muted gray of the tors that tower above. In Inupiaq tradition each tor had its own individual name.
Large granite tors are left behind as the rest of the landscape erodes away around them. This area of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a place of great significance to native people of the region and it is said that each tor once had a name.
