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Camping in Alaska does not have to be a high adrenaline adventure. A base camp trips allow you to settle into this wilderness landscape. Enjoy bird watching, wilderness photography, or witness the incredible caribou migrations. Alaska wildlife photography and bird watching tours aren’t just for professional photographers, Arctic Wild base camp trips are also great for family wilderness vacations or anyone wanting to experience true wilderness. In addition to our scheduled trips we lead a wide variety of base camp trips every year, activities can range from dog-sledding, to wildlife viewing, to hiking or fishing. A base camp allows you lots of time to devote to your passion.

What to Expect on a Camping Adventure

We plan our base camp tours around wildlife migrations and activities. Our base camp trips offer unparalleled opportunities for wildlife photographers and naturalists to spend time with the arctic’s fascinating animals.

 

Your Arctic Wild guide will set up a comfortable camp with abundant, good food and drink and lead daily hiking trips, offer suggestions and insight, or just let you relax in peace. Alaska bird watching can’t be beat with seabirds and terrestrial birds (depending on location) including Asian migrants rarely seen in North America.

The Brooks Range and the untamed Alaska wilderness is your home for the week, enjoy!

Preparing for a Base Camp Trip.

Everyone from young children to octogenarians will enjoy our base camp trips, and no physical training is needed. We are happy to advise on specialized equipment needed for wilderness photography in the arctic. Our years of Alaska bird watching experience will help you prepare or decide which trip is offers the best arctic birding opportunities for your interests. A reading list can be provided for each trip tailored to your interest whether general natural history, wildlife photography, arctic bird watching, or northern cultures.

The great food throughout the trip shouldn’t have been a surprise, but it was a delight. As I review the meals, it sounds more like an immobile glamping excursion than an Arctic expedition — French toast and pancakes (with maple syrup!) and bacon and oatmeal and Mexican egg scramble, hummus and couscous and cheese and eggplant and jerky and smoked oysters and nuts and chocolate, Mexican feasts of pork quesadillas and enchiladas and a weenie roast and fusilli with salmon al fredo (with sun-dried tomatoes and rosemary) and Thai chicken stew and the Thanksgiving feast (I mean, really, turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes in the wilderness?)

- Tom, Cape Town, South Africa

CLEAR Base Camp TRIPS TAGGED: JUNE

2024

March 18, 2024 - March 23, 2024
Dog Sledding
$5,900
May 18, 2024 - June 1, 2024
Aleutian Adventure (Adak to Attu)
$25,000
June 24- 29 and June 29 - July 4, 2024
Mission: Caribou
$8,000
July 11, 2024 - July 17, 2024
Krusenstern, Kobuk, and Gates National Parks
$8,100
July 14, 2024 - July 19, 2024
Bears of the Katmai Coast
$6,400
July 15, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Demarcation Bay Base Camp
$7,600
July 20, 2024 - July 25, 2024
Wrangells Base Camp
$5,600
July 23, 2024 - July 27, 2024
Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic
$7,800
August 30, 2024 - September 5, 2024
Arctic Refuge Autumn Base Camp
$7,700

2025

March 16, 2025 - March 21, 2025
Dog Sledding
$6,400
June 12, 2025 - June 16, 2025
Arctic Refuge Spring Base Camp
$8,100
June 27, 2025 - July 2, 2025
Mission: Caribou
$8,800
July 10, 2025 - July 16, 2025
Krusenstern, Kobuk, and Gates National Parks
$8,100
July 14, 2025 - July 18, 2025
Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic
$8,500
August 4, 2025 - August 8, 2025
Gates of the Arctic Base Camp
$7,800
CLEAR Base Camp TRIPS TAGGED: JUNE

2024

March 18, 2024 - March 23, 2024
Dog Sledding
$5,900
May 18, 2024 - June 1, 2024
Aleutian Adventure (Adak to Attu)
$25,000
June 24- 29 and June 29 - July 4, 2024
Mission: Caribou
$8,000
July 11, 2024 - July 17, 2024
Krusenstern, Kobuk, and Gates National Parks
$8,100
July 14, 2024 - July 19, 2024
Bears of the Katmai Coast
$6,400
July 15, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Demarcation Bay Base Camp
$7,600
July 20, 2024 - July 25, 2024
Wrangells Base Camp
$5,600
July 23, 2024 - July 27, 2024
Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic
$7,800
August 30, 2024 - September 5, 2024
Arctic Refuge Autumn Base Camp
$7,700

2025

March 16, 2025 - March 21, 2025
Dog Sledding
$6,400
June 12, 2025 - June 16, 2025
Arctic Refuge Spring Base Camp
$8,100
June 27, 2025 - July 2, 2025
Mission: Caribou
$8,800
July 10, 2025 - July 16, 2025
Krusenstern, Kobuk, and Gates National Parks
$8,100
July 14, 2025 - July 18, 2025
Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic
$8,500
August 4, 2025 - August 8, 2025
Gates of the Arctic Base Camp
$7,800
"The wilderness was spectacular, the leadership perfect."
"I am just finishing my tenth trip with you guys. As always, the trip was more than I expected and I had a great time. See you next year!"
"Of all outfitters with whom we have worked (and that is quite a number), you were by far the most organized and responsive."
"That feeling of wide open wonder, the possibilities for nearly limitless wandering, and the image of those proud caribou...that will stay with me a long time"
"Our guide was an encyclopedia on legs. He was always willing and ready to teach, to talk, to listen, to do another hike, or to lie low in camp if we were beat. He truly gave us the trip we wanted!"
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Eileen - Canning River