Originally Posted by
Chromie25
I'm planning to do a detour to Barrow while going from Anchorage to Fairbanks in Sept. Will report back once I've been there but for reference, I decided to go just because it's the Northernmost settlement in North America and I can dip my toes in Beaufort Sea/Arctic Ocean.
Barrow is not the northernmost settlement in North America, just the US. Several settlements in Nunavut are further north.
Point Barrow, the northernmost point of all US territory, is a short drive out of town. It's a flat gravel headland and pretty unremarkable overall. It usually takes wandering around it with a GPS to figure out what point of it is the most northern.
https://goo.gl/maps/Ps22gGAM9uL2
The last time I was there, when we arrived at what the GPS told us was most north we looked down to find a dead seabird.