Tok Travel Guide

Welcome to Tok, Alaska

A small community with a small name, Tok (pronounced Toke) is the trade center for the Athabascan Native villages of Northway, Tetlin, Tanacross, Mentasta, Eagle and Dot Lake. With a population of less than 2,000 people, modern day Tok is a place where prospectors can still pan for gold and one of the oldest Sled Dog Races in Alaska is held each March. The town originated as an Alaska Road Commission camp during the construction of the ALCAN Highway in the 1940s. Continuing this legacy, it then became the site at which the Tok Cut-Off Highway was built in the 1950s, providing a quick, convenient rout from the ALCAN to Anchorage. Explore Tok and discover log homes with sod and wild flower roofs, old fish wheels and historic mining equipment. Be sure to watch for llamas strolling the side streets. Follow the smell of ribs and salmon on the barbecue and find a delicious meal. There is plenty of local Native arts and crafts to be found in gift shops throughout town, while bear, moose, caribou, trumpeter swans and dall sheep may all be seen all around this natural paradise.