For complete travel information on the Alaska Highway, travelling in Alaska, and Alaska's attractions, we strongly recommend the Milepost Travel Guide.The Milepost
(available at good book stores everywhere)
 

Drive around Tok and you’ll see wild and domestic flower gardens, big vegetables, log homes with sod and wild flower roofs, old fish wheels, historic mining equipment, lots of airplanes, log caches. In late afternoon you may see the llamas strolling Tok. Smell the ribs BBQing and the salmon baking.
  • Nature trails and paved bike paths.
  • Visit Mainstreet Visitors Center with statewide
    trip planning, lots of information and Alaska
    video viewing.
  • Pan for gold.
  • Bird watching.
  • Tetlin Wildlife Refuge Headquarters and Alaska Public Lands InformationCenter.
  • Visit mini-museums on Alaska pioneer life,gold mining and Alaska wildlife.
  • Play some Bush golf.
  • Flightseeing.
  • Relax for the day, prepare for your great Alaskan
    experience, or rest up for the trip home.
  • Fish in our nearby streams and lakes.
  • Check out the wolves!
  • Boat rides on the scenic Tanana River.
  • Go on a horse ride.
  • Take a day trip up the Taylor Highway (an Alaska Scenic Byway) to historic Chicken. Talk to real miners. Dredge tours are available.
  • Enjoy a great 4th of July with us. Parade, flag ceremony, picnic, craft fair, games. Volleyball, 3-legged race, greased pole, outhouse race, baking and photo contests, live music and tug of war.

  • MOST businesses in Tok are open year-round. Reservations from May-Sept. are recommended.
  • TOK’S summer temperatures average 60-70ºF.ring a light jacket, good walking shoes.
  • TOK’S winter temperatures average -30/-70ºF.
  • All major roads are maintained year-round.
  • TAYLOR/TOP OF THE WORLD HWYS. are good gravel roads, travelled at moderate speed.
    Please allow extra time on all roads due to added seasonal traffic and construction.
  • MANY Alaskan attractions do not begin operations until mid- to late May because of weather restrictions.
  • GAS prices in Tok in 2000 averaged $1.76 per gallon of regular unleaded. Lower in cities.
    GROCERY prices vary around the state.
  • HOMESTEADING & FREE LAND are a thing of the past.
  • U.S. CURRENCY, traveller checks and credit cards are accepted at most Alaskan businesses.
  • TOK has no car rental agencies.
  • LIMITED bus service to Fairbanks, Anchorage, Whitehorse and Haines.
  • SEAT BELTS are to be worn by state law, and while headlights on during daylight is not a requirement, it is good safety practice.
  • NORTHERN LIGHTS are visible August through May.

 

U.S. CUSTOMS

(907)774-2252

CANADA CUSTOMS

(867)862-7230

ALASKA STATE TROOPERS

911

FIRE

(907)883-2333

AMBULANCE

(907)883-5855

TOK COMMUNITY CLINIC

(907)883-5855

PUBLIC HEALTH CLINIC

(907)883-4101

EMT’S

(907)883-5111

TOK MENTAL HEALTH

(907)883-5106

ALASKA POWER & TEL

(907)883-5101

ALASKA PUBLIC LANDS INFO

(907)883-5666

KLONDIKE VISITORS ASSN.

(867)993-5525

ALASKA FERRY 

1-800-526-6731
 

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