Gates of the Arctic National Park

Gates of the Arctic National Park
	Gates of the Arctic National Park
Location:	Alaska , United States
Next city:	Fairbanks
Surface:	30,448.1 km²
Founding:	2nd December 1980
Visitors:	9,591 (2018)
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The National Park Gates of the Arctic ( Gateways to the Arctic , English Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve ) is after the Wrangell-St Elias National Park is the second largest national park in the United States. It includes a large pristine wilderness in Endicott and Schwatka Mountains of the Brooks Range of Alaska . The area contains a labyrinth of valleys with glaciers and rugged mountains with northern forests and arctic tundra vegetation cut by wild rivers .

The area was declared a national park by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980 and is located north of the Arctic Circle . Caribou , musk ox , wolves and bears populate the scientifically important area. Its core area is designated as a national park, other areas have the lower protection status of a National Preserve . Hunting is allowed in them.

Part of the National Park is a wilderness area , which together with the Noatak Wilderness in the west bordering Noatak National Preserve is about 51,570 sq km with the largest contiguous wilderness area of the United States. The sections of the Alatna , John , Kobuk , Koyukuk , Noatak and Tinayguk rivers within the park boundaries are designated as Wild and Scenic Rivers . The Preserve is on the World Conservation Union in Category V ( Protected Landscape performed).

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