The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are popular for hiking and camping in the raw wilderness. Campers are advised to come prepared with a compass, GPS, maps, or all three, as assistance is not easily ...

Spread out over 1.7 million square miles, Kobuk Valley’s natural features include flowering sand dunes, frozen mountains, mushy lowland tundra, a sweeping river and polygon-shaped permafrost ...

Enclosed within the 1.7-million-acres park, lies the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, one of Alaska's true oddities, and a vestige of the immense continental glaciers that once covered much of North America.

Kobuk Valley is known for its striking sand dunes. “Sand dunes in the Arctic landscape are not what you would expect. Since most people associate sand dunes with a hot desert environment, it is ...

The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are the largest active sand dunes in the Arctic and cover 30 square miles with towering sand; some dunes reach as high as 100 feet. Related: See 43 Stunning Landscapes.

The west side of the Kobuk dunes along upper Kavik Creek. (Seth Kantner) KOTZEBUE — It’s spring here, sunny and bright, and deceptively cold.

Scientists poked around beneath the surface of Alaska's Great Kobuk Sand Dunes and found liquid water during the winter. That led them to think they might find water beneath frigid dunes on the ...

Kobuk Valley National Park, located in the Arctic region of Alaska, lies approximately 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Covering 1,750,716 acres, the park is home to the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes ...

The team will conduct research at the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes twice in 2025, both in the month of March and again in late summer, to observe how the changing seasons affect the activity levels of ...