Visit Arctic Parks

Arctic parks encompass 19.3 million acres of land—more than a quarter of the land area managed by the National Park Service nationwide. Interior parks (Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) extend across the rocky and barren mountains of the central and western Brooks Range west to the southern Chukchi Sea.

Together, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument represent the third-largest block of coastline in the National Park Service—approximately 946 miles (1,514 km). In these parks one can find lowland wet tundra, coastal tundra, lagoons, estuaries, and rivers all underlain by permafrost. The Alaskan Arctic consists of largely intact ecosystems and has been inhabited by people for thousands of years.

Arctic Parks

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  A continental crossroad

  Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

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  A Remnant of the Ice Age

  Cape Krusenstern National Monument

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  Discover a Premier Wilderness

  Gates of the Arctic NP&Pr

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  An Arctic Desert Wonderland

  Kobuk Valley National Park

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  Rivers & Ranges of Opportunity

  Noatak National Preserve

Arctic NHLs

• Birnirk National Historic Landmark
• Cape Krusenstern National Historic Landmark
• Ipiutak National Historic Landmark
• Iyatayet National Historic Landmark
• Onion Portage Archeological District NHL
• Wales Sites National Historic Landmark

Arctic National Historic Landmarks

In addition to parks, the NPS also protects sites for historic preservation, such as national historic landmarks. These can be significant sites on other (non-NPS) lands (e.g., Birnirk, Ipiutak, Wales, Iyatayet), or within parks (e.g., Cape Krusenstern, Onion Portage).