A semi-enclosed bowl of some 1.7 million acres of northwest Alaska ringed by the Baird Mountains to the north and by the Waring Mountains on the south, about 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle, forms Kobuck Valley National Park. Stretching along the central Kobuk river, this park, is mostly in a natural state, where the boreal forest reach their northern limit, resulting in an open woodland of small trees in a mat of thick tundra. It is here that the western arctic caribou herd of some 450,000 animals migrate annually.

Visit the Kobuk Valley National Park Forum to ask questions about the park.