Finding Light in Kobuk Valley National Park
When planning a visit to America’s national parks, some destinations require a second look at the map to confirm what the photograph is showing. Kobuk Valley National Park contains active sand dunes above the Arctic Circle. Not near the Arctic Circle, not at its edge — 35 miles north of it, in the boreal forest and tundra of northwestern Alaska, where the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes rise to 100 feet above the Kobuk River valley floor with the Brooks Range as backdrop and the caribou migration passing through them twice a year.