Arctic Adventures in Alaska's Land of the Midnight Sun
Custom Kobuk River Guided Tours - Lodging - Fishing - Hunting

The Kobuk River Tour is sponsored by Lorry and Nellie Schuerch if Kiana. The village of Kiana is located on the Kobuk River in Northwestern Alaska, approximately thirty miles north of the Arctic Circle, in “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” The Kobuk Valley is home of the Kobuk River Inupiat Eskimos and there are five major Inupiat settlements along the river banks.

While touring this sparsely inhabited wilderness, it’s likely you will see caribou, moose, brown and black bears, foxes, wolves and ravens. The Kobuk is home to untold amounts of wild birds, including the Arctic Tern, which migrates from Antarctica to the Arctic each summer to nest.

All of our equipment is modern and dependable and our tour boat is fully enclosed and heated. Your skipper is a Coast Guard licensed river boat captain who is familiar with the language, philosophy and customs of the Eskimo people.

Weather permitting, you might visit one of the most important archeological sites in Alaska! There is an extensive series of historical housepits along the Kobuk River, evidence of the Woodland or Neo-Eskimo people of 1250 AD, the forefathers of today’s “Kuuvangmiit” (Kobuk River People).

Witness the migration of the Northwestern Arctic Caribou herd, totaling approximately 500,000 animals. This impressive concentration of bulls, cows and calves band together in the fall to travel south to their winter feeding grounds, and then return north in the springtime to calve.

Participate in the harvesting of white fish, sheefish and salmon. Witness the unique method of preserving this valuable food, a staple in our diet for the long winter months. Berry picking is a favorite autumn treat.

Come! We’d like to share it with you. Sharing is an old Eskimo tradition.