Welcome to USARTRAK Online
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Alaska is a state of extraordinary beauty with a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Because of its strategic location, the Army has maintained a presence in Alaska since 1867. The land managed by Fort Wainwright comprises almost 10% of the total training land available to the Army.
Fort Wainwright lies 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle near the cities of Fairbanks and North Pole in interior Alaska in the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the fourth largest Army training area in the United States. Fort Wainwright consists of Main Post, Tanana Flats Training Area, Yukon Training Area, Donnelly Training Area, Gerstle River Training Area, Black Rapids Training Area, and Whistler Creek Training Area. Fort Wainwright undertakes a multiple-use approach to land management while still meeting the single mission use of the land (military readiness for national defense). Fort Wainwright provides for the conservation of the natural and cultural resources found within its boundaries through intensive Natural Resource, Cultural Resource and Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) programs; actively seeks public input through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) program; encourages tribal consultation through the Native Liaison; and maximizes public access and recreation opportunities for hunting, fishing, trapping, wood cutting, hiking, subsistence activities and mushing through the Outdoor Recreation program.
Recreational activities are permitted on Fort Wainwright Training Areas providing those activities do not conflict with the military mission or training activities. The Fort Wainwright U. S. Army Recreation Tracking System (USARTRAK) has been established to facilitate public recreational access to the Fort Wainwright training lands. USARTRAK is designed to keep you informed of training area closures, and to help you check in to open training areas. Please review important USARTRAK information and rules to be found here, or by selecting USARTRAK Info from the Tools Menu at the right side of this page. USARTRAK allows users with a valid Fort Wainwright Recreational Access Permit (RAP) to check in through this web site or through an automated telephone system (see below).
How to Gain Recreational Access to Fort Wainwright Training Lands
Obtain a Recreational Access Permit (RAP). You can obtain a Recreational Access Permit from this web here: Get a RAP, the Fort Wainwright Natural Resource Office (Bldg 3023) or the Donnelly Training Area Natural Resource Office in the hangar at Allen Army Airfield on Fort Greely.
Check-In through USARTRAK. You may check-in through this web site's interactive map pages (Login ) or by calling the automated USARTRAK phone system (Toll Free 877-705-8725, Fairbanks: 907-353-3181, Delta Junction: 907-873-3181, Palmer 907-373-4637). When checking in with USARTRAK, please remember that you must have a valid RAP, and that you will not be allowed to check in to areas which have been closed due to Army training activities.
We hope that you find this system easy to use. It is designed to make the registration and check-in process as simple as possible for you, the recreational user. Please have a safe and enjoyable visit on Fort Wainwright lands!
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