The main public access to the Lakes is from a Bureau of Land Management maintained campground and boat launch at Round Tangle Lake, about 20 miles (32 km) from Paxson on the Denali Highway.

The area around the lakes consists mostly of tundra due to the high elevation (2,864 feet (873 m)).

Prior to 1976, almost 150 sites had been discovered showing that The Tangle Lakes have been populated intermittently since the settlement of the New World.

[5] Part of the Tangle Lakes area has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an archaeological district in 1971.

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