This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers and, sometimes, books related to the park.

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve: www.nps.gov/gaar

Visitor Centers

Bettles Ranger Station and Visitor Center

Physical Address

Airport Rd
Bettles, AK 99726

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 30
Bettles, AK 99726

907-692-5494

Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station

Physical Address

3030 Main St.
Anaktuvuk Pass, AK 99721

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 21102
Anaktuvuk Pass, AK 99721

907-661-3520

Arctic Interagency Visitor Center

Physical Address

Milepost 175 of the Dalton Highway
Coldfoot, AK 99701

Mailing Address

1150 University Avenue
Fairbanks, AK 99709

907-678-5209

Fairbanks Alaska Public Lands Information Center

Physical Address

101 Dunkel Street
Fairbanks, AK 99701

Mailing Address

101 Dunkel Street
Suite 110
Fairbanks, AK 99701

907-459-3730

For various maps of the park, click here. 

For information about bringing pets, click here. 

Entrance into Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is free. No entrance pass is required.

Helpful Books

Your Guide To The National Parks, 3rd Edition
For park travelers who prefer having a tactile national park guide in their hands, the 3rd edition of Your Guide To The National Parks has arrived with a number of updates, not the least of which is the inclusion of four "new" national parks. Michael Joseph Oswald's latest edition is not something you'll stick in your daypack to lug around. It's too heavy for that, running to more than 700 pages! But it is ideal for traveling from park to park in your car or truck and poring over in the evening to plan your next day's activities, or your next park destination.

Gates Of The Arctic National Park: Twelve Years Of Wilderness Exploration
Retired from college teaching, still healing from combat in Vietnam, Joe Wilkins found peace and solace in some of the most remote wilderness in the United States – Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. For a dozen years he volunteered for the National Park Service, accompanying rangers on patrols into remote corners of this 8,472,566-acre preserve in northern Alaska. He took many photos and kept careful notes of the places and people he encountered in his travels there, and in this photo-memoir he shares his experience of this remote and remarkable landscape.

Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid The Arctic Climate Crisis
Jon Waterman is an adventurer, writer, and environmentalist. As an environmentalist he is concerned about damaging impacts of anthropogenic climate change on natural and human communities, and in this book, he sets out to examine how climate change is affecting the American and Canadian Arctic and its people using his exceptional adventurer skills to experience it firsthand. He loves the Arctic, and deeply regrets what is happening there.