Kobuk Valley National Park

A Day In The Park: Kobuk Valley National Park

Located way up north, along Noatak National Preserve’s southern border and within spitting distance of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska is a land of sand dunes, rivers, forests, and mountains. It’s also where 250,000 caribou pass twice a year on an annual migration between their summer and winter grounds.

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By Rebecca Latson - July 28th, 2025

4th Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks | National Parks And The Mines Next Door

As far as the Biden administration is concerned, a proposed Alaska mining road through a U.S. national park and adjacent federal land is kaput. Rejected. Case closed. Or so it was thought.

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By Rita Beamish - January 11th, 2025

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #79: National Parks In Alaska Edition

Alaska is a big state (twice the size of Texas) with 19 National Park System units, eight of which are national parks. So how about a quiz focused on these eight parks? How many of you have traveled to any or all of them, and just how much do you really know? Test your knowledge with these 10 quiz questions. You might learn something from the questions as well as the trivia.

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By Rebecca Latson - October 15th, 2024

Why Melting Permafrost Is Turning Alaskan Streams Orange

A troubling sign of climate change are the nearly 600 miles of rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range that have been stained orange.

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By Rita Beamish - June 7th, 2024

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #70

Get ready to test your national parks knowledge with this first National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece of 2024.

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January 6th, 2024

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #43 – December Notables

December is the twelfth month and there are 12 national parks that were established in December. So, guess what this last quiz of 2021 will be about?

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December 25th, 2021

Kobuk Valley National Park: Digging Into Mother Nature's Sandbox

It's not easy to visit Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska -- you need to take a small plane or river boat to reach it -- but the trek is well worth it if you enjoy sand dunes.

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April 17th, 2019

New Superintendent Chosen For The Western Arctic Parklands

Maija Katak Lukin, Maniilaq Association Tribal Environmental Manager and former mayor of Kotzebue, has been selected as the superintendent for the Western Arctic Parklands.

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September 19th, 2016

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Study: National Parks Contributed $32 Billion To National Economy In '15

If there are any billion-dollar babies in the National Park System, they would be the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, both of which contributed more than $1 billion in tourism benefits to the communities surrounding their borders, according to a 2015 analysis of the National Park System's value to the national economy.

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April 24th, 2016

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Exploring Sand Dunes…In Alaska

There are many units of the National Park System where you can explore and have fun on sand dunes – Death Valley National Park in California, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado … and Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska.

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February 25th, 2016

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