Contact Information
P.O. Box 220
Nome, AK 99762
907-443-2522
The Bering Land Bridge was America's original Ellis Island.For several periods during the Pleitocene Ice Age, enormous glaciers froze much of the earth's water, lowering the sea level by 300 feet. The resulting drop in the oceans exposed an Alaska-Siberia land bridge between 40,000 and 13,000 years ago, creating a natural migration route for America's original inhabitants. Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is all that remains of this ancient bridge between Asia and the Americas, at least above water. The sprawling 2.7 million-acre preserve in Northwestern Alaska's Seward Peninsula ranks among the most remote and least-visited U.S. national park areas. Just 42 miles from the U.S. - Russian border, the preserve can only be reached by bush plane or boat in the summer, and by dogsled, skis, or snowmobile in winter. If you want to see an America much the same as the landscape its first inhabitants viewed after the 1,000-mile trudge across the bridge, head for Bering. The hiking, camping, wildlife watching, and scenery are matchless. And if you go in summer (which is strongly recommended, unless minus-50-degree weather doesn't faze you), you'll have more daylight than you can handle to take it all in. But pack wisely, since summer is a relative term and can often mean snow in this frozen corner of the world.
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