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2008 Summer Visitors Guide
index Welcome to Fairbanks .......................................3 Fishing .............................................................4-6 Denali National Park and Preserve .............8-10 Nenana .............................................................12 Anderson ..........................................................12 Ester ..................................................................13 Fairbanks Visitors Center ................................14 Fairbanks and vicinity map .............................15 Places of worship .......................................16-19 Engine No. 1 .....................................................21 Pioneer Park ................................................22-23 Alaska Salmon Bake ........................................23 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival .....................24 Community Museum .......................................25 Native Alaskans ...............................................26 Driving in Alaska .............................................27 Walking tours ...................................................28 Races and running ...........................................29 Midnight Sun Game ........................................30 Restaurants .................................................31-36 Downtown shopping ......................................37 Farmers Market ................................................38 Alaska Railroad ................................................39 Riverboat Discovery .........................................40 Creamer’s Field .................................................42 That pesky state ‘bird’ .....................................43 Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre ......................44 UAF’s animal research center ..........................45 Golfing under the midnight sun .....................46 Summer mushing .............................................47 Gold panning ...................................................48
Aurora awe ......................................................49 Tanana Chief ....................................................52 Midnight Sun Festival .....................................53 Gold Dredge No. 8 ...........................................53 Fairbanks campgrounds ..................................54 Alaska campgrounds .......................................55 Trans-Alaska Pipeline .......................................56 El Dorado Gold Mine .......................................57 Ice museum ......................................................57 Museum of the North ......................................58 Georgeson Botanical Garden ..........................59 UAF campus sights ..........................................60 Chena Hot Springs Resort ...............................61 Steese Highway ...............................................62 Whitehorse .......................................................63 Alaska Highway ...............................................65 Fox ....................................................................66 North Pole ...................................................67-69 Chena Lakes Recreation Area .........................70 Delta Junction ..................................................71 Soaring into Solstice ........................................72 Tok .....................................................................73 Eagle .................................................................73 Wrangell-St. Elias .............................................74 Yukon Territory Campgrounds ........................75 Elliott Highway ................................................76 Arctic Circle .......................................................77 Chicken .............................................................78 Valdez ...............................................................79
Questions or comments? Contact Visitors Guide editor Gary Black at gblack@newsminer.com