We stayed here for a night in August, in a cabin. Wiseman, Alaska, is
a village of 18 people north of the Arctic Circle, off the Dalton Highway. The villagers are subsistence inhabitants. They hunt and fish for their food, living off the land. Other than two families which have lodging accomodations, there are no public facilities in Wiseman. The nearest gas and restaurant is in Coldfoot, 13 miles south.

We drove from New York to Alaska and back -- a two month trip. We had
done a lot of research starting from the previous October. We learned
that you can drive from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay (at the Arctic Ocean) on the Dalton Highway, which a mostly dirt and gravel road. The part that is paved suffers from potholes ceated by freezing and unfreezing in the Arctic winter. We decided that we would drive the Dalton to as far north as Wiseman (about 230 miles south of the Arctic Ocean). The Dalton Highway is extremely remote. Very few tourists drive it in their private... more