Prudhoe Bay Hotel
Having come all the way to Deadhorse, you can either turn around (after gassing up with what is, ironically, some of America's costliest petrol), or do what locals do: hole up in a hotel and watch cable TV.
Having come all the way to Deadhorse, you can either turn around (after gassing up with what is, ironically, some of America's costliest petrol), or do what locals do: hole up in a hotel and watch cable TV.
The Brooks Range is largely behind you once you reach the turnoff for the undeveloped Galbraith Lake Campground at Mile 275.
Nowadays, with an airstrip, post office and trooper detachment, you might expect Coldfoot to be a quaint Arctic hamlet. No such luck. Coldfoot Camp has lodgings and food.
Around Mile 70, as the road clambers back out of the river valley, burned-over patches of forest appear, a legacy of the wildfires that scorched much of the Interior in 2004.
On the opposite side of the highway across from the Yukon Crossing Visitor Contact Station is a vast muddy lot and Yukon River Camp, a utilitarian truck stop with work camp-style rooms, showers, costly gas, a gift shop, and not-half-bad food.
If you're stuck in Coldfoot there are Spartan rooms to be had in the Slate Creek Inn.
An alternative to the Yukon River Camp is the agglomeration of temporary structures called the Hotspot, five miles north, with similar accommodations but cheaper fuel. Its burgers are famous up and down the highway.
Wiseman's heyday was 1910, when it replaced the original Coldfoot as a hub for area gold miners.
Having come all the way to Deadhorse, you can either turn around (after gassing up with what is, ironically, some of America's costliest petrol), or do what locals do: hole up in a hotel and watch cable TV.
As the Arctic Interagency Visitors Center employees will tell you, the area's best lodging is down the highway from Coldfoot. Campers should proceed 5 miles north to Marion Creek Campground.
Next door to the Arctic Getaway Cabin & Breakfast, cheaper but more institutional, are the rooms at Boreal Lodge.
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