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Website:
arctictreksadventures.com
Contact email:
info@arctictreksadventures.com
Telephone:
907 455-6502
Fax:
907 455-6522
Address:
P.O. Box 73452
Fairbanks, AK
99707, Alaska
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For over 20 years, Arctic Treks has made it possible for adventurous souls to experience one of the most remote, magnificent wilderness areas on our planet.
Our yearly trip schedule includes a diverse selection of 7-10 day trips across the length and breadth of Alaska's Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Gates of the Arctic National Park.
Our offerings include backpacking, paddle rafting and basecamp/hiking trips, designed for those with a sense of adventure--those wanting to shed their civilized trappings and recharge their spirits in a natural world both inspiring and demanding.
With absolutely no roads, trails or campgrounds, you have the uncommon experience of just the pure, wild land itself, the weather, and your desires guiding and directing your travels. And in the 24 hour daylight of the arctic summer, you're free not only from the harried pace of city life, but free from the constraints of time itself.
Each of our trips begins and ends in Fairbanks. From there, the specific trip area is accessed by air, travelling first by scheduled "mail planes" to the closest village, then flying by a smaller "air taxi" into the wilderness itself, using "tundra tires" to land on river gravel bars or tundra, or "floats" to land on rivers or mountain lakes. This journey into and out of each trip area is itself an exciting adventure, with opportunities for incredible flightseeing and intriguing glimpses of Native Eskimo and Athabaskan Indian life.
Arctic Treks has been a leader in setting standards for
the wilderness guiding profession in Alaska and working to protect Alaska's
wild land, and was selected as the 1999 winner of the World
Wildlife Fund Arctic Award 
for Excellence in Linking Tourism and Conservation.
The award was established to reward best practices in Arctic tourism by highlighting those operations with an outstanding commitment to linking tourism with conservation of the Arctic environment.
These are our guiding business principles and practices:
- choosing to stay small;
- personally leading most of our trips; limiting our group size and the number of trips we run;
- operating in a simple style that fits the place;
- practicing the highest standards of minimum impact camping.
