Day one:

Departing Fairbanks at 8:30AM we will be traveling North on the Steese & Elliott highways. From Livengood we begin the Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay. The Dalton Highway is known locally as the Haul Road.

Stops this first day will include:

• The Yukon River Camp for lunch on your own
• Bakers Knob for photos of the Trans Alaskan Pipeline as it zig-zags across the tundra
• Finger Mountain to learn how the country was formed by lava outcroppings 300 million years ago
• This day you will pass three of the Trans Alaska Pipeline Pumping Stations
• A photo at the Arctic Circle, and
• this day is complete entering the beautiful Dietrich Valley.
• Dinner on your own in Coldfoot
• Overnight at famed Coldfoot Camp

Optional Add-On Tour #9020 flight-seeing tour over the Gates of the Arctic National Park

Day two:

Back on the Dalton and continuing through the Dietrich valley. The mountains to your left form the border with Gates of the Arctic National Park. The mountains to your right form the border with Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). We will start our climb over Atigun Pass the highest in Alaska at 4875 feet with the climb up Chandalar Shelf.

At the Chandalar Valley we will be north of the Alaskan tree line and in open tundra. From Atigun Pass we begin our traveling onto the North Slope of Alaska, from here all waters flow north to the Arctic Ocean. Traverse this vast open Tundra country. This day we will again pass three more Trans Alaska Pipeline Pump Stations.

• Evening Oilfield tour to “toe dip” in the Arctic Ocean
• Overnight in Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay

Day three:

• Today you will double your chances of viewing wildlife and photos of this vast country with our drive back to Fairbanks
• This day will have around 10-stops with
• lunch on your own at Coldfoot
• Arriving back to Fairbanks after midnight
  • We will drop you back where we picked you up with memories to last a lifetime