The 1974 Games were held in the largest city north of 60 in North America, Anchorage, Alaska. The Games featured 16 sports including, archery, badminton, basketball, boxing, cross country skiing, curling, figure skating, hockey, Inuit Games, judo, shooting, snowshoeing, snowshoe biathlon, table tennis, volleyball and wrestling.
Nuuk, Greenland and Iqaluit, Nunavut hosted the first split community, split country Games
Yellowknife, NWT brought together the circumpolar north for this edition of the games.
The eighteenth Arctic Winter Games was held in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Northern Alberta.
Alaska hosted the circumpolar competitors for this edition of the Arctic Winter Games.
Alaska brought great awareness and much promotion to this edition of the Arctic Winter Games.
