Address:
National Park Service
Kotzebue, AK 99752

Cape Krusenstern National Monument is a treeless coastal plain dotted with sizable lagoons and backed by gently rolling limestone hills. Cape Krusensterns bluffs and its series of 114 beach ridges record the changing shorelines of the Chukchi Sea over thousands of years. Because the ridges accumulated over time, the earliest ridges lie inland, and the most recently formed ridges near the shore. This unusual series of beach ridges present, in sequence, detailed evidence of an estimated 9,000 years of prehistoric human use of this coastline. Some archeological sites here are older than wellknown remains of ancient Greek civilizations on the Mediterranean Sea. In summer, wildflowers color the beach ridges and nearby hills. Large numbers of migratory birds come from all over the world to Cape Krusenstern to nest. In fall, these migrating birds use the lagoons as feeding and staging areas. Shifting sea ice, ocean currents, and waves continue to form spits and lagoons possessing important scientific, cultural, and scenic values. Along the outer beaches, Alaska Natives still hunt marine mammals. Local rural residents are allowed to hunt in the Monument. A road to the Red Dog mine crosses the northern boundary. Trucks haul zinc from open pit mines to a tidewater port. Cominco Alaska operates the mine, along with the NANA Regional Corp., a Native corporation based in Kotzebue.



Phone: Headquarters 9074423890 Visitor Information 9074423890 summer Visitor Information 9074423760

Address:
National Park Service
Kotzebue, AK 99752

The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote national park areas, located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. The Preserve is a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago. The majority of this land bridge, once thousands of miles wide, now lies beneath the waters of the Chukchi and Bering Seas. During the glacial epoch this was part of a migration route for people, animals, and plants whenever ocean levels fell enough to expose the land bridge. Archeologists agree that it was across this Bering Land Bridge, also called Beringia, that humans first passed from Asia to populate the Americas. The Preserves western boundary lies 42 miles from the Bering Strait and the fishing boundary between the United States and Russia.



Phone: Visitor Information 9074432522 Headquarters 9074423890

Address:
National Park Service
Kotzebue, AK
99752

Western Arctic National Parklands is a management unit which includes Noatak National Perserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Kobuk Valley National Park near Kotzebue, AK and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve located on the Seward Peninsula near Nome, AK.



Phone: Headquarters 9074428300 Summer Visitor Information 9074423760

As one of North Americas largest mountainringed river basins with an intact ecosystem, the Noatak River environs features some of the Artics finest arrays of plants and animals. The river is classified as a national wild and scenic river, and offers surperlative wilderness floattrip opportunities from deep in the Brooks Range to the tidewater of the Chukchi Sea.

Address:
National Park Service
Kotzebue, AK 99752

Phone: Headquarters 9074423890 summer Visitor Information 9074423760

Kobuk Valley National Park is encircled by the Baird and Waring mountain ranges. The park povides protection for several important geographic features, including the central portion of the Kobuk River, the 25 sqaure mile Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, and the Little Kobuk and Hunt River dunes. Sand created by the grinding action of ancient glaciers has been carried to the Kobuk Valley by both wind and water. Dunes now cover much of the southern portion of the Kobuk Valley, where they are naturally stabilized by vegetation. River bluffs, composed of sand and standing as high as 150 feet, hold permafrost ice wedges and the fossils of Ice Age mammals.

Address:
PO Box 1029
Kotzebue, AK 99752

Phone: Headquarters 9074423890 summer Visitor Information 9074423760