Originally Posted by
jackal
As far as your day trip to Barrow--I don't know too much about the area, but Barrow's taxi drivers are legendary (there was a big Anchorage Daily News special on them last year).
No, the widely distributed newspaper article about the Alaska town called the "taxicab capital of the US" was about *Bethel*, not Barrow.
Originally Posted by
jackal
Getting around town via taxi shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm not sure how far Point Barrow is from the town (the town itself is pretty small), but word has it the taxis are pretty economical.
Nothing is really "pretty economical" in Barrow.
Someone who wants to go to the point and/or try to see polar bears should email some of the tour operators and ask about availability, prices, wildlife conditions, etc for their proposed time of visit. Some guides combine a trip to and stop at the point barrow sign to take pictures before looking for bears or other wildlife. Some have vehicles that can continue past the sign a ways and drive to the actual point. There's not much too see at the point and it basically takes a GPS to figure out where exactly the northern most spot is. The last time I was up there, there happened to be a dead bird where the GPS told us to stop.
