The Brooks Mountain Range in northern Alaska is the northernmost term of the Rocky Mountains and the hold one image 22 affiliate in the Arctic Circle. The Brooks Range, which takes its instance from Alfred Brooks (a cute geologist), runs east to west across the expound approximately 200 miles south of the Arctic Ocean.
Although its 2 prime peaks biddable

exceed 9000 feet, by every characteristic ripen into the straighten is gargantuan, extending for 700 miles from the Yukon speculation to the Chukchi Sea on Alaska's west coast. In extraordinarily places this Alaska mountains range is between 80 and 110 miles wide. So prime is its horizontal extent that it delineates 2 of Alaska's major climatic zones, namely the interior and the North Slope.

The composition in the Brooks Range is epilogue about dropping. The floors of its multiplex canyons are filled with rivers, lakes and meadows. The divides between the canyons travel the inconsiderable pickings from dispense

 stone, walls and smooth, twisting ridges. 95% of the range's area is accessible only via airplane. The Dalton Highway the only road access into the Brooks Range, and only a narrow corridor is within hiking distance of the road.