Wind River

Alaska

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
101 - 12th Avenue
Box 20
Fairbanks, Alaska 99701

Designated Reach: December 2, 1980. The segment from its source, including all headwaters and one unnamed tributary in T13S, within the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Classification/Mileage: Wild — 140.0 miles; Total — 140.0 miles.

Beginning in the Philip Smith Mountains, this river offers a wide variety of vegetation, scenery, and wildlife characteristic of a boreal forest on the south slope of the refuge. A small river with little human use, its remoteness provides for excellent populations of wildlife including moose, caribou, Dall sheep, and grizzly bear.