| | Nome, Alaska sits on the Seward Peninsula by the Bering Sea. At 539 air-miles north of Anchorage, it is near the Arctic Circle. As a result, Nome can offer visitors the very best snow adventures in Alaska.Nome visitors may snow mobile on the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, an area as priceless as Yellowstone or Yosemite. Often called the greatest remaining wilderness in North America, the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve offers primitive, public tent campgrounds which lie entirely north of the Arctic Circle.The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge presents diverse animal life including polar bears, grizzlies, and black bears. There are wolves, wolverine, sheep, muskox, and caribou in abundance. Bird watchers will be drawn especially to the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, and the Selawik River for the many ducks, geese, tundra swans, loons, and sandhill cranes among others.The Kobuk River has fishing, kayaking and canoeing, with rapids just below Walker Lake. These water sports are also available on the Selawik River, with an easy to moderate difficulty rating.Do you like geocaching? Nome, Alaska offers opportunities for geocaching. When you visit Nome, be sure to bring your GPS and look for geocaches near Nome.Dining and lodgings are very abundant and range from a bed and breakfast inn to motels. Nome wants everyone to come and see all the best the state has to offer. |  | | | |
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