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 Smokey fits right in. Must be
the suspenders! by Aurora907
Wherever you go in Alaska...dress in layers!!! Especially on a trip like this. My friends came up in June of 04 and we ended up losing our jackets and applying LOTS of sunscreen. It was around 90 degrees and super sunny! Also, grab extra batteries or memory cards before you get to Discovery Landing!
There's also an hour (maybe hour and a half) where you actually leave the Riverboat to learn about Interior living at Chena Village (not a REAL village). A good chance to learn about our Native peoples and more great photo opportunities. Maybe bring along some mosquito repellent...you never know when they'll pop up!
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Greatland Dinner Tours...
I have never tried, but I've also never heard bad about it.
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 Ho ho ho, wanna give me
your money? by Scandic
I was here just before Christmas (good timing, yeah) and all I saw were andgry and stressed parents, long lines and over priced goods. Maybe I was there in a bad moment, but it is nothing like I expected. It is just a one big house with Christmas stuff to buy, nothing else. Not like play ground or anything for kids.
Don't go there while weekend or in November /December. Or may I say at all? That sounds so nasty that I won't say that.
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People ask me often about this train ride. Its a tourist trap. Its a made up environment.
If you still want to pan for gold....buy a plastic goldpan in town and then drive out of town on the Steese Highway.
There is a rest area named for Felix Pedro . You can pan for free for a couple hours and then continue up the road
to an area called Chatanika. Have lunch at F.E. Goldcamp. They even have cheap rooms.
Continue a bit to Chatanika Roadhouse....look at the weird stuff on the walls in this place.
Also there is a very short trail across the road which leads to an old gold Dredge. Check it out.
The roadhouse also will play a video for you which explains the dredging which took place in the area years ago.
Its very informative and even interesting.
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 WAS a choice blueberry hill.
Not no more!! by Cossackgrrl
and is likewise the focus of most of the tourist lures.
You can squat like a dog and grovel in some streams for iron pirite with your rented 'prospector' duds
...or go for the full-bore testaments to permanent enviromental damage that are the gold dredges.
At least the connection between what makes life possible in this harsh clime and what we expect tourists to blindly celebrate is clear:
resource exploitation.
SEE the gold dredges, the monsterously phallic oil pipe-line, and the 'magic' of a petroleum-worshipping lifestyle...
If you have a soul you will leave with a refreshed commitment to sustainable resource development.
Be LOUD and spit ALOT
visit during winter
...stare into aurora until it stares right back into your heart...
surrender to it scouring you empty
it'll kiss your insides up full of night
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Don't waste your time, unless you have little kids that are into Santa Claus. There isn't much to do here. Leave a Comment
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If you're looking for a tourist trap in Fairbanks, just look around you. Seriously, though -- in the summer, if it has a tour bus in front of it, it's a tourist trap. But lighten up! Have fun! Be a tourist! Leave a Comment
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I don't know if this is actually a tourist trap, and if it's not closed by now, it probably is. ALASKALAND! This place was something else. It's no Disneyland, just look at one of the 'restaurants'. Leave a Comment
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FYI, Alaskaland in Fairbanks is now Pioneer Park, which better depicts what they are. They are a historical park and it can be very enjoyable if you're into history. Most of the buildings in Gold Rush Town there were moved from downtown Fairbanks after barely surviving the big flood of 1967. There is an air museum, a tour of an historic riverboat, the rail car that President Warren G Harding road in when he drove the golden spike for the Alaska Railroad in 1923. And of course there is the Alaska Salmon Bake - a bit pricey, but worth the experience.
This is a park created by the city for the people of the city as well as visitors. There is no general admission, but a few exhibits do charge a few bucks to get in. Don't miss the historical society's museum - it's free and very educational. Enjoy the nightly show at the Palace Theater for a musical review of the history and culture of Fairbanks. Leave a Comment
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