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Campsite at the Arctic Circle
Campsite at the Arctic Circle

Arctic Circle Campground

Overview Arctic Circle Campground is located on a beautiful mixed forest hillside at the Arctic Circle. It was fully renovated in 2021. There are some views of nearby hills and the Kanuti Flats. It is located ½ mile east (uphill)...

Arctic Circle Wayside

A popular spot for photographs, the BLM’s Arctic Circle Wayside is located at milepost 115 on the Dalton Highway. The Arctic Circle Campground is approximately 0.7 miles to the east. A sign noting the Arctic Circle provides opportunities for photographs...

Arctic Interagency Visitor Center

First opened in 2004, the Arctic Interagency Visitor Center is a partnership between three federal agencies that manage the public lands in northern Alaska: the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

Atigun Pass

You cross the Continental Divide at Atigun Pass (milepost 244, elevation 4,739 feet). South of here, rivers flow into the Pacific Ocean or Bering Sea, while rivers to the north flow into the Arctic Ocean. Storms can dump snow here...

Bear Creek Trail

The Bear Creek Trail is primarily a winter trail and not recommended for summer use. From its start at Nome Creek Road, this trail climbs gradually to cross a ridge before paralleling the Beaver Creek drainage. It crosses Champion Creek...

Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River

Those folks seeking true adventure can find it floating Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River. Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River is a Class I, clear water river, with only a few short sections of class II water that flows...

Big Bend Trail

The Big Bend Trail is a 14-mile segment of winter trail that is located in the White Mountains National Recreation Area. The primary access for the Colorado Creek Cabin is via a 1-mile trail segment from the Colorado Creek Trail...

Birch Creek Wild and Scenic River

Birch Creek Wild and Scenic River flows from the windswept ridges and alpine tundra of the Steese National Conservation Area into the broad expanse of the Yukon Flats in central Alaska. The river offers one-week float trips notable not only...

BLM Campbell Creek Science Center

Imagine the discoveries you will make as you explore Alaska's natural world with the BLM Campbell Creek Science Center. Situated on the BLM Campbell Tract, which covers over 700 acres of boreal forest in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska, the...

Cache Mountain Cabin

Built in 1991, the 12 ft x 16 ft Cache Mountain Cabin sits on a terrace above O’Brien Creek approximately three miles above the creek’s confluence with Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River. The cabin sleeps up to six people...

Cache Mountain Loop Trail

The Cache Mountain Loop Trail connects with the Fossil Creek Trail at the Windy Gap Cabin. The trail continues up the Fossil Creek drainage through spruce trees and open hillsides with good views. The route is mostly off the creek...

Campbell Tract Loop National Recreation Trail

The 3.4 mile Campbell Tract Loop National Recreation Trail follows the perimeter of the historic WWII Army-Air Force Campbell Tract airstrip garrison. The trail begins and ends at the Smokejumper Trailhead. The trail consists of improved and natural surface trails...

Campbell Tract Special Recreation Management Area

The BLM Campbell Tract is a 730 acre Special Recreation Management Area located in the heart of Alaska’s largest urban area, and provides outdoor recreation opportunities in a non-motorized natural setting for more than 500,000 visitors annually. The 25 mile...

Caribou Bluff Cabin

Located on a narrow ridge overlooking the Fossil Creek valley, Caribou Bluff Cabin offers spectacular views of jagged limestone cliffs and peaks. The 10 ft x 12 ft cabin will accommodate 4 persons. Cabins are equipped with bunk beds, a...

Castner Glacier Trail

Winter access is on the southeast side of the bridge. In winter months a user created route is sometimes present traveling up the creek bed to the glacier terminus. Winter parking is usually available within the Richardson Highway right of...
Clearwater Creek Wayside
Clearwater Creek Wayside

Clearwater Creek Wayside

Clearwater Creek Wayside is located at MP 55.5 of the Denali Highway along Clearwater Creek, providing trail access to motorized users for the Clearwater Creek South Trail. Restrooms, picnic tables, and fire rings provide a nice break for those traveling...

Coal Mine Road/Jarvis Creek

This unimproved road starts at mile 254 on the east side of the Richardson Highway. This network of trails and roads provides access to stocked lakes and amazing views of the Alaska Range and Delta River. Unimproved campsites exist that...

Colorado Creek Cabin

One of the BLM’s first public use cabins in the White Mountains, Colorado Creek Cabin remains one of the most popular and accessible cabins, only 14 miles from the Elliott Highway. The 12 ft x 16 ft cabin sits next...

Colorado Creek Trail

This mulit-use winter trail follows the Duncan Creek drainage through open meadows and spruce and birch forest. The trail climbs gently for the first ten miles before a steep ascent to a ridgeline with views of the Beaver Creek drainage...

Cripple Creek Campground

Located at milepost 60 of the Steese Highway, Cripple Creek Campground has 12 first come first served universal design campsites, as well as 6 walk-in campsites. The campground also has a riverside day use area with fishing access along the...

Crowberry Cabin

The BLM constructed Crowberry Cabin in 2007 to replace a previous cabin destroyed by a wildland fire in 2004. A picture window looks out on Big Bend, a craggy limestone outcrop towering above Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River. The...

Dalton Highway

The Dalton Highway stretches 414 miles across northern Alaska from Livengood (84 miles north of Fairbanks) to Deadhorse and the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Built to allow for construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, this mostly gravel...

Delta Wild and Scenic River

The Delta River watershed is in the Alaska Range in Southcentral Alaska and provides year-round recreational opportunities within its 150,000 acres of land, 160 miles of streams, and 21 lakes. The Tangle River connects several of the Tangle Lakes and...

Delta Wild and Scenic River Wayside

The Delta Wild and Scenic River Wayside is located at MP 21.5 on the south side of the Denali Highway and is for day-use only (no camping). The wayside is equipped with an accessible picnic area, drinking water and toilets...

Denali Highway

The Denali Highway is often overlooked by motorists, yet offers some of the most spectacular scenery and recreation opportunities in Alaska. For those with a heart for adventure and a little extra time, the highway presents a historic glimpse of...

Eagle Campground

This campground has 18 sites and several outhouses within walking distance of historic Fort Egbert and the village of Eagle.

Eleazar's Cabin

Eleazar’s Cabin is named in honor of a BLM carpenter who directed the construction of 13 cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area. His first trip into the White Mountains was as a young Boy Scout in 1966. Eleazar’s...

Five Mile Campground

Five Mile Campground is located approximately 4 miles north of the Yukon River crossing, at Dalton Highway milepost 60. Newly improved in 2022, it offers a vault toilet, potable water in an artesian well, the only RV dump station along...

Fort Egbert National Historic Site

In 1899 the Fortymile region and upper Yukon valley were awash with gold miners and settlers lured in by the Klondike Gold Rush. Reports of lawlessness among the newcomers eventually reached Washington D.C. through the tortuously slow communications available at...

Fortymile Wild and Scenic River

The Fortymile Wild and Scenic River is an extensive network of creeks and rivers in east-central Alaska, 392 miles of which are designated as a Wild, Scenic, or Recreational section of the National Wild and Scenic River System . The...

Fossil Creek Trail

Fossil Creek Trail, in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, is an 18.8 mile trail maintained for winter snowmobiling, skiing, dog mushing, snowshoeing, and fat-biking. Fossil Creek Trail starts at the north end of Wickersham Creek Trail near the Borealis-LeFevre...

Fossil Gap Trail

The trail crosses open meadows and then follows Fossil Creek drainage downstream for approximately 1.5 miles before climbing off the creek and back into the spruce. The trail parallels the Fossil Creek before crossing open meadows to Beaver Creek. Beaver...

Fred Blixt Cabin

Located at 62.5 mile Elliott Highway, Fred Blixt Cabin provides a year-round, road-accessible getaway— perfect for a relaxing family outing or a trip to the nearby White Mountains National Recreation Area. The original cabin was built by trapper and prospector...

Gillespie Lake

(MP 168.7 W Richardson Hwy) This 1/4 mile foot trail is located at mile 168.7 on the west side of the Richardson Highway. It provides foot access to Gillespie Lake. There is a large parking area here. There are no...

Gulkana Mp 141 Trail

This 17 (b) easement can be found at mile 141 on the west side of the Richardson Highway. This easement across private lands provides foot access to the Gulkana River. The beginning of this easement is steep and can be...

Gulkana Wild and Scenic River

The Gulkana River watershed drains approximately 2,140 square miles of Southcentral Alaska. The river begins in the Alaska Range near Summit Lake and flows south into the Copper River, which eventually empties into the Gulf of Alaska between Cordova and...

Iditarod National Historic Trail Recreation Management Area

The Iditarod National Historic Trail celebrates a 2,300 mile system of winter routes that first connected ancient Native Alaskan villages, and later opened Alaska to the last great American gold rush. The Trail is still in use today with rural...

Jack Creek Trail

The Jack River Trail is located at mile 131 of the Denali Highway, approximately four miles east of Cantwell, Alaska. The trail is an Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) 17(b) easement providing access through Ahtna, Inc. native lands to...

June Lake

This short foot trail provides access to June and Nita Lakes. It is located at mile 166.5 on the west side of the Richardson Highway. There is no developed parking area here; however, there is a side road across from...

Kimball Pass

This trail system can be accessed at mile 61.8 of the Richardson Highway. Three trails begin here providing access to the Chugach Mountains. The most popular route (Kimball Pass) is reached by taking the left fork of the trail, or...

Klutina Lake Trail

Located at mile 101.5 of the Richardson Highway, this road provides access to the Klutina River and Klutina Lake. This road is a 17 (b) easement through native owned lands. Allowable uses for this 60-foot easement are travel by motor...

Lee's Cabin

The most visited cabin in the White Mountains cabin system, the BLM constructed Lee’s Cabin in 1991 for year-round use. The cabin is located seven miles from the Wickersham Dome Trailhead and can be accessed by foot, mountain bike, four-wheeler...

Liberty Falls Trail

This 17 (b) easement trail is an excellent, but fairly steep hiking trail. This 1 mile long trail provides excellent views of the Wrangell Mountains and the Copper River.

Lower Nome Creek Trail

From a junction with McKay Creek Trail, this trail descends gradually from a ridge top through forest and meadows into the Nome Creek drainage. It crosses the creek before ending at Nome Creek Road and the Bear Creek Trail.
Marion Creek Campground campsite with picnic table and fire ring.
Marion Creek Campground campsite with picnic table and fire ring.

Marion Creek Campground

Overview Marion Creek Campground is nestled on the south side of the Brooks Range in the Middle Fork Koyukuk River valley. It offers vistas of the Brooks Range and has access to the nearby undeveloped trail up to Marion Creek...

McKay Creek Trail

The trail crosses State of Alaska land before entering the White Mountains National Recreation Area. It is maintained in the winter and is popular for snowmobiling, skiing, dog mushing, and fat biking. The winter trail is often used to access...

Middle Fork Trail

Located at mile 169.5 on the west side of the Richardson Highway, this is one of the most highly used trails in the field office. The trail begins in a state highway gravel pit and continues westward approximately 8 miles...

Moose Creek Cabin

The BLM built the original Moose Creek Cabin in 1986 as the agency began developing a cabin and trail system in the White Mountains. In June 2014, the BLM replaced the old cabin with a new 16 ft x 16...

Moose Creek Trail

Moose Creek Trail is maintained in the winter for snowmobiling, skiing, dog mushing, showshoeing and fat-biking. From the Wickersham Creek Trail Shelter at 11.2 mile on Wickersham Creek Trail, the trail goes through spruce forests before crossing Wickersham Creek and...

North Fork Trail Shelter

North Fork Shelter Cabin is located approximately 10 trail miles from the Twelvemile Summit Trailhead on the Pinnell Mountain National Recreation Trail on the back side of a hill. This small cabin is available on a first-come, first-served basis and...