Northern Lights are visible August through May of each year. More pictures of Tok. The Tok Area offers fishing opportunities for rainbow trout, Arctic grayling, northern pike, and burbot. Rainbows can be caught at Fourmile, Hidden, Robertson 11, and Jan lakes. Grayling occur in the Tok River Overflow and Little Tok River about 20-25 miles south of Tok along the Tok Cutoff Road.
Pike occur in most area lakes connected to the river system.
Burbot inhabit the Chisana, Nabesna, and Tanana rivers and are caught by bottom fishing with bait. Consider flying out with a local air taxi for a true wilderness fishing experience. Thick black spruce forests, the result of decades of government fire suppression, fueled the 1990 blaze. Visitors to Tok can get a first hand look at the burn by driving north on East Fifth near the old truck stop. River road, an unmaintained road that starts about a quarter-mile from the Alaska Highway and runs northeast about 5 miles to the Tanana River, and a fire trail that intersects Red Fox Lane near the end of East Fifth Street offer a nice evening walk through the burned area.