145 Taylor Highway and along the Top of the World Highway in summer. Use binoculars to scan mountain slopes on both sides of the Tok Cutoff from Mile 91 to 101, looking for groups of white dots. Both black and grizzly bears inhabit the Tok area. Look for their tracks in mud along area trails and near rivers. Bear can often be viewed safely with binoculars on the open hillsides between Tok and Northway and on mountain slopes along the Tok Cutoff between Tok and MentastaPass.
Late evenings are best for viewing bears.
The entire Upper Tanana Valley offers excellent waterfowl nesting habitat and is a main migration corridor for the birds each spring and fall. Moon Lake, about 22 miles northwest of Tok on the Alaska Highway, and Mineral Lake, About 40 miles south of town along the Tok Cutoff, offer excellent viewing opportunities. Trumpeter swans, the royalty of local waterfowl, can be seen nesting in the ponds near the Alaska Highway between Tanacross and Moon Lake. There is a handy highway turnout from which the swans and other waterfowl can be viewed. Mallards, pintails, widgeon, green-winged teal, buffleheads, and scaup are locally common.