Greenland & The Arctic - North American Arctic (Chapter)

This is the Arctic North America Travel Routes chapter from Lonely Planet’s Greenland & The Arctic 2 guidebook.

Big skies, big vistas, big game, big rewards – everything in Arctic North America seems to have succumbed to that supersize effect. In the vast wilderness of the untouched north, wild animals far outnumber people, jagged mountain peaks give way to immense sweeps of desolate tundra, and tiny isolated villages carry on with life through winter’s cruel temperatures and perpetual night. It’s an area of incredible beauty, engulfing silence and constant awe.

• witnessing the migration of the largest caribou herd in the world at Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• maps
• watching a carver conjure spirits out of soapstone in the Inuit art capital, Canada’s Cape Dorset
• transport
• beating a path to the top of the world and marvelling at the pristine wonders of Canada’s Quttinirpaaq National Park
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Canada’s Dempster Highway, Dawson, Dawson to Eagle Plains, Eagle Plains to Fort McPherson, Fort McPherson to Inuvik, Inuvik, Flying Canada’s Eastern Arctic, Iqaluit, Katannilik Territorial Park, Resolute, Grise Fjord, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, Alaska’s Dalton Highway, Fairbanks, Fairbanks to the Yukon River, Yukon River to Wiseman, Wiseman to Deadhorse, Northwest Alaska, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, Barrow 261.