I was looking around in that area (on the maps) and apparently its an oil field kind of thing. Reading up on it, there's restrictions on being able to actually

I was looking around in that area (on the maps) and apparently its an oil field kind of thing. Reading up on it, there's restrictions on being able to actually access the ocean from that location - concerns about security, I guess. I thought an interesting nearby spot (east of Prudhoe Bay) was Cape Parry Bird Sanctuary. On the west side there was a military base that had since been decommissioned and what looks like an abandoned airstrip. But it still is bright for that area. Apple Maps shows more detail for that location; maps.google.com didn't have very high resolution imagry.