Gates of the Arctic National Park, the least visited national park with only 7,362 recreational visitors in 2021, is also the northernmost park. We arrived by bush plane and only had a few minutes on the ground, but the scenery is beyond breathtaking. We landed on a gravel bar in the Ambler River below the Schwatka Mountains in the far southwest corner of the park. One oddity I noticed is that almost every creek, brook, stream, and river was named, but very few of the mountains were named. We visited in late August 2022.
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| Gravel bar and runway |
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| View southwest |
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| A closer view |
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| A small channel separates the gravel bar from the riverbank |
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| View northeast and upstream |
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| A closer view |
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| View southeast across the Ambler River |
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| View southeast from the plane |
There is no entrance fee at Gates of the Arctic National Park.
The Gates of the Arctic National Park website is https://www.nps.gov/gaar/index.htm.
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