Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Alaska
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
Last quarter
Crowds
low
Open today
Open
Entrance
Free entry
Broken Windsock at Serpentine Hot Springs
The windsock at the Serpentine Hot Springs airstrip is broken, and the National Park Service is in the process of ordering a replacement. At this time, we do not have an estimated date for when it will be reinstalled. Please use caution when utilizing the airstrip.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve lies at the continental crossroad that greatly influenced the distribution of life in the Western Hemisphere during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is a vital landscape for Indigenous communities who depend on the land just as their ancestors did for many generations. It is a wild and ecologically healthy landscape unlike any other.
Activities
No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
Bering Land Bridge Preserve is open 24/7 year round. Due to its remote location accessing the preserve can be challenging, costly and time consuming.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 1-907-759-8020
✉ bela_information@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Feb, Jun, Sep
Typical crowds: low
Weather now: 🌦️ Drizzle, 49°F
🌦️ 55°/49°
🌦️ 55°/48°
🌦️ 54°/48°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
62%
Feb
30%
Mar
69%
Apr
51%
May
41%
Jun
36%
Jul
99%
Aug
42%
Sep
15%
Oct
100%
Nov
43%
Dec
40%
Log a sky reading
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Things to do
Passport Stamps at Bering Land Bridge
Visitor centers
Bering Land Bridge Heritage Center
Accessibility
4 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Bering Land Bridge National Preserve — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
People & stories
Figures tied to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve — each spans a cross-park journey.
Alberta Schenck: Teenage Activist
— Alaska Native, Civil Rights, AlaskaLynne Cox: The Swim That Lifted the Iron Curtain
— Cold War, Little Diomede Island, US Soviet RelationsSinrock Mary, the Reindeer Queen
— Akwomen, Women's History, WomenPassport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Bering Land Bridge Heritage Center
Places to see
Imuruk Lava Fields
audio
Maar Lakes
audio
Nome Visitor Center
audio
Serpentine Hot Springs: An Overview
audioAudio & media
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Learn more
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Microgrant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Microgrant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2013 Microgrant recipients and their outreach projects.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Microgrant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Microgrant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2015 Microgrant recipients and their outreach projects.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Science Education Grant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Science Education grant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2017 Science Education Grant recipients and their outreach projects.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Science Education Grant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Science Education grant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2018 Science Education Grant recipients and their outreach projects.
The Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) funds numerous outreach projects through the Science Education Grant program. These grants help MSLC partner parks pay for science education outreach projects. Funding for the Science Education grant program is provided by Alaska Geographic. Read about the 2019 Science Education Grant recipients and their outreach projects.
The National Park Service is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2022 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
National park units in Alaska precede the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. The first park unit, Sitka National Monument, was conceived in 1908, and by the mid-1920s four national monuments along with Alaska’s first national park were part of the growing park system. Discover how the early 1900s and observations of a few helped to establish the National Park Service in Alaska.
Volcanologist Erika Rader's first thought about visual near-infrared spectroscopy equipment was, "I don't understand this and therefore I don't believe it works, but planetary scientists use it a lot so maybe I should give it a think." Soon after, she wanted to share the technology with others.
Ranger School
Park-grounded courses you can learn with the Ranger.
How Bering Land Bridge National Preserve connects
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