And much to our surprise it was also a BYOF excursion.
We ask for your flexibility so that we can get all our flying done each day. Take another left and walk a few feet. It is doable to fly to Gates, Kobuk, Noatak Park and Preserve and Krusenstern in one day. For people like myself, whose bucket list was to visit all the national parks, that is why they are called âboots on the groundâ flightseeing tours.I had booked a flightseeing tour with a company called Altogether weâd be spending about four and half hours in a small plane with three take-The day of our flight turned out to be overcast and somewhat drizzly which was in line with the forecast. This is the kind of trip that people who are, like us, trying to visit all of the national parks and who are not prepared to spend a week kayaking or canoeing or We flew into Anchorage and the next day boarded a Boeing 737 Combi and flew to Kotzebue is a mostly Native American village of about 3200 people. A grizzly bear can run 30 miles an hour and he could be on us fairly quickly if he had a mind to.
Before we left our pilot was in radio contact with some other Native American villages along our planned route and was able to confirm that the weather was better along our planned route and acceptable to fly in. It is on the Brown bears, black bears, musk oxen, moose, Dall sheep, wolves, wolverines, coyotes, Arctic and red foxes, lynxes, marmots, porcupines, river otters, beavers, snowshoe hares, muskrats, bald eagles, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, great horned and northern hawk-About three weeks after our visit, President Barack Obama came to Kotzebue to give a speech on climate change.
And we take credit cards, checks and cash.Unlike airlines with schedules, we are a charter service and we donât have set times for our flights. For planning purposes, all five parks is about an 8 hour day. Most people like to visit Gates and the Kobuk in one day. Our rates for standard flights to the parks include a short landing for picture taking. I wanted to see the two mountains, As it happened my flight out of Bettles kept getting pushed back due to an early (August) snowstorm up in Gates and the fact that the pilot had hunters that he had dropped off sometime earlier and who needed to be picked up. It is an extremely remote park and getting to it on anything but a plane could take quite some time. Plenty of bears, moose and Dall sheep to see from the bus. We were flown in on a small plane, landed in each park, stayed no more than an hour in each park, and left.
He and his entourage stayed at the Nulligivik.There are no marked trails to speak of.
That was the third time weâve been to Denali and no less enjoyable than any of the others. Gates Of The Artic and Kobuk Valley National Parks are two of Alaska's least visited parks.
The first thing you should know about these parks… they are ridiculously hard to get to. Hike and canoe with Alaska Alpine Adventures! Your air taxi will be equipped to land either on water or on natural gravel “runways.” We hired Brooks Range Aviation to fly us to Kobuk and Gates of the Arctic. We headed for the We took off and headed back to Kotzebue. They generally can include a landing, although not on any airstrip, where you can spend an hour walking around and taking pictures. There were many small ponds everywhere dominating the landscape. Both of my cars are bigger inside than the interior of this plane which I think was a Cessna 172.Our first stop was to be about 20 or 30 miles into Gates of the Arctic and would take about 2¼ hours to get there. They are beautiful Arctic wildernesses, teeming with wildlife, that will provide a lucky visitor with an unforgettable experience.I have combined these two parks because these were essentially âboots on the groundâ trips that we did with one flightseeing trip. Unfortunately the weather was pretty much overcast throughout the day but at least we didnât have much rain. An exclusive 12-day wilderness tour of both Gates of the Arctic and Kobuk Valley National Parks. Take a left, walk a few feet.
We will work around your airline schedule but otherwise please let us decide when weâll take you out.If youâd like to spend the night in Kotzebue there are several Airbnbâs and we recommend the following to help with that-This should get you started.