Paddling near Coldfoot, AK

Coldfoot sits at Mile 175 of the Dalton Highway in Alaska's far north, just outside Gates of the Arctic National Park and deep in Brooks Range country. The area is a staging point for serious wilderness paddling — most notably float trips on the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River, which begins near Coldfoot, and fly-out expeditions to remote Arctic rivers such as the Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. These are true backcountry runs, not day-trip waters.