Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska, United States
4.5 (6 reviews) Spent Ranking #1 in Kobuk Valley National Park National Parks
Beautiful Desolation
The only way to get there is by Bush plane. There are probably no other humans within 50 to 100 miles. It is a wonder. Sitting on the dunes is a terrific experience.
Address
Kobuk River, Kobuk Valley National Park, AK 99752
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Website
http://www.nps.gov/kova/index.htm
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4.5 based on (6 reviews)
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5Fred Boyd 5:00 PM Jun 20, 2018
Awesome Park
We flew to Kobuk National Park from the Bettles Lodge. We landed on the sand dunes and had lunch and hiked around for a few hours. The sand dunes are awesome and the scenery is beautiful. This was my 59th park out of 60. One more to go. The Bettles lodge was fantastic and their flight seeing trips are the best. It's not cheap but if you want to go you just have to pay. I would recommend this trip to anyone trying to go to all the National parks.
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4margaret s 5:00 PM Dec 14, 2017
The quietness of Kobuk Valley National Park
We were at Bettles Lodge and decided to book a bush plane ride with our great pilot Kevin. The scenery over to Kobuk Valley National was pretty neat even though it was a bit foggy. Spits of rain here and there as well. The mountains all around were spectacular and you could see a pretty significant sized Indian Village as well and some moose down below in areas. We also got to stop at Gates of the Artic NP which was very nice and remote as well. Kobuk Valley NP looked quite like the Sahara Desert. There was nothing there except dunes, dunes and more dunes. It really was very different and beautiful in such a remote area. There also was a ravine with a river down below it that was lovely. We were there in June and there were lots of wild flowers -- AK's state flower -- forget me nots and those yellow and purple ones -- forgot their names. It was worthwhile and a good memory. I have some pics I can dig out if anyone is interested.
