The Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station is staffed during the summer season from April through September, typically Monday-Friday, 9-5:30. Here you can learn about the park, and gain advice on hiking routes in the area. Bear Resistant Food Containers are available to borrow as well. Outside display is open year-round.

Front View of the Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station

inside view of ranger station with various maps, books, and TV, along with chairs

Interior of the Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station

Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station

Open seasonally April-September. Closed October-March.

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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve - Anaktuvuk Pass, AK

Multi-agency visitor center located on the Dalton Highway in Coldfoot, Alaska

View of large wooden building with mountains rising behind it.

Arctic Interagency Visitor Center

Circular room with large map showing the arctic circle and information panels

Map Exhibit at Arctic Interagency Visitor Center

Gray sidewalk leads to the entrance of a brown wooden building. A standing sign has the word "Open".

Arctic Interagency Visitor Center Entrance

Large exhibit shows a river scene with fish and a lynx stalking a snowshoe hare

Wildlife and Ecosystem Exhibit at Arctic Interagency Visitor Center

Closed in Winter

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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve -- Coldfoot, AK

The Bettles Ranger Station is situated outside of the boundaries of Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, in Bettles, Alaska. This small ranger station and visitor center has exhibits, park-related films, interpretive programs, and trip-planning tools.

Bettles Visitor Center

Interior Room of Bettles Ranger Station with a wooden table and mount of a white wolf with ptarmigan

Interior of Bettles Ranger Station

large wall map shows the geography and topography of Gates of the Arctic National Park

Bettles Map Exhibit

View of blue wooden A-frame building in the snow with a snowmobile in front

Bettles Ranger Station

Bettles Ranger Station and Visitor Center

Closed in winter.

**Summer 2023** Ranger Station and Visitor Center is closed until further notice. For visitor assistance, contact the Fairbanks Alaska Public Lands Information Center. 

Backcountry orientations and Bear Resistant Food Containers (BRFCs) are not available at this location until further notice.

Winter Hours

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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve -- Bettles, AK

Explore world-class exhibits, watch a free informative movie, and receive assistance on your trip planning needs while at the Alaska Public Lands Information Center, located inside of the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.

View showing the entrance to a large two-story, wood, glass, and steel building.

Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center

a national park ranger talks to park visitors at an information counter

Ranger Assisting Visitors at FAPLIC

View of the interior of the Morris Thompson Center, showing the Fairbanks APLIC and plane

Interior plane and FAPLIC

A national park ranger stands outside the open door of a historic log cabin

Gould Cabin Ranger Tour

View of the interior entry to the Morris Thompson Center, showing painting of Morris Thompson

Interior Entrance of Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center

Fairbanks Alaska Public Lands Information Center

The Alaska Public Lands Information Center is open year-round, with summer and winter hours.

Columbus Day

Veteran's Day

Thanksgiving

Christmas Day

New Years Day

Washington's Birthday

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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve -- Fairbanks, AK

This vast landscape does not contain any roads or trails. Visitors discover intact ecosystems where people have lived with the land for over ten thousand years. Wild rivers meander through glacier-carved valleys, caribou migrate along age-old trails, endless summer light fades into aurora-lit night skies of winter. Virtually unchanged, except by the forces of nature.