Anaktuvuk Pass Airport guide

Anaktuvuk Pass Airport (ICAO PAKP) serves the village of Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. The village sits inside Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and no road reaches it. The airstrip is the community's year-round link to the outside, apart from winter cat trains over the tundra from the Dalton Highway.

The airport has one gravel runway, 2/20, measuring 4,800 by 100 feet at an elevation of 2,102 feet. The North Slope Borough owns it. The FAA classes it as a non-primary commercial service airport.

Scheduled passenger flights run to Fairbanks, which takes the largest share of traffic: 3,010 of the airport's 6,171 passengers in 2024. Wright Air Service carried about three quarters of that traffic, with Everts Air and Warbelow's Air Ventures also serving the field. The airport handled about 1,014 aircraft operations and 2,596,000 pounds of freight in 2024. Freight, mail and food arrive by air, so cargo flights matter as much to the village as passenger service.