Thule to Camp Century Abandoned Ice Road

This ghostly ice road was carved across northwest Greenland’s ice sheet in 1959 to supply Camp Century, the U.S. Army’s secret nuclear-powered city under the ice. The route starts at Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base) and tracks northeast across crevassed glacier fields to reach the abandoned station’s surface markers, now nearly buried by decades of snow accumulation. Navigation relies on GPS coordinates and occasional bamboo markers left by research expeditions, while massive crevasse fields demand constant vigilance.

Extreme difficulty requiring specialized Arctic vehicles, crevasse rescue gear, and polar survival training. Only attempt with military escort or research expedition support – solo travel is effectively suicide. Best conditions May-July during 24-hour daylight, though weather windows are unpredictable. Military clearance required through Pituffik Space Base. What you achieve: standing above one of the Cold War’s strangest secrets, where a nuclear reactor once powered an underground city that officially never existed.