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E Pioneer Park VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
2300 Airport Way. Tel 459-1087. @
Blue & Red Lines. Open year-round. Practical Information
& for some attractions. 7 - = 357 miles (574 km) N of
Museums: Open Mar & Apr: 1–5pm Fri– Anchorage. Transport map E3.
Sun; early May: 1–5pm daily; mid-May– * 35,000. n 101 Dunkel St,
mid-Sep: 11am–8pm daily; late Sep: 456-5774 or (800) 327-5774.
1–5pm daily. ∑ fairbanks-alaska. ( summer: Wed & Sat.
com/alaskaland.htm _ World Ice Art Champion ships
This historical theme park features (early Mar), Midnight Sun Festival
(Jun 21), Fairbanks Golden Days
gold panning, a reconstructed (3rd week of Jul), World Eskimo-
Gold Rush town, the railway car Vintage mining equipment in Indian Olympics (mid-Jul).
that President Warren G Harding Pioneer Park ∑ explorefairbanks.com
used while visiting Nenana ∑ fairbankschamber.org/
in 1923, and the SS Nenana, a Museum, with its collection of goldendays
stern wheeler which oper ated vintage aircraft and exhibits on
on the Chena River from 1933 to Alaska’s aviation history. Transport
k @ Anchorage–Whitehorse.
1956. The Alaska Native Museum
highlights Athabaskan culture, E University of Alaska
while the Alaska Pioneer Museum Museum of the North Art, which exhibits works
outlines the lives of early settlers. 907 Yukon Dr, University of Alaska by renowned Alaskan artists.
Don’t miss the Pioneer Park Air Fairbanks. Tel 474-7505. @ Blue, The university’s Large Animal
Yellow, & Red Lines. Open Jun–Aug: Research Station (LARS), which
9am–7pm daily; Sep–May: 9am–5pm
Creamer’s studies musk oxen and caribou,
Dairy Alaska Bird Mon–Sat. & 7 = ∑ uaf.edu/ and the Georgeson Botanical
University of Alaska Fairbanks Creamer’s Field Observatory
Museum of the North Migratory museum Georgeson Botanical Garden: Garden are also open to visitors.
1 mile (1.6 km) Waterfowl 117 W Tanana Dr, UAF. Open Jun–Aug:
Refuge
N o y e s S l o u g h MARGARET AVE 8am–8pm daily. & 8 ∑ george E Riverboat Discovery
TAMARACK ST
RD
C O L L E G E R O A D
sonbotanicalgarden.org LARS: 2220
WEDGEWOOD
ESQUIRE AVE Yankovich Rd, UAF. Tel 474-5724. Open 1975 Discovery Dr. Tel 479-6673.
@ Yellow Line. Open mid-May–mid-
CARR AVE KATHRYN AVE mid-Jun–early Sep: 9:30am–7pm Wed,
CENTRAL AVE 9:30am–4:30pm Thu–Sun. & 8 10am, Sep: 9am & 2pm daily. & 7 - =
SOUTHERN AVE AURORA DRIVE DOGWOOD ST EVERGREEN ST DANBY S T R E E T HAMPSTEAD AVE O‘CONNER RD noon, & 2pm daily. ∑ uaf.edu/lars ∑ riverboatdiscovery.com
Walden
ASPEN STREET MARIKA RD MARIKA RD B A I N BRIDGE BLVD Alaska Railroad Packed with natural history, Perhaps the town’s most popular
Pond
BURGESS
AVE
attraction, Riverboat Discovery
cultural, and geographical
offers three-hour-long stern-
WEMBLY AVE
Station
T H E A L A S K A R A I L R O A D MI NN IE ST MIN N I E S T INA S T University of Alaska Museum the Chena River on the Discovery I,
HANSON ROAD J O H A N S E N E X P R E S S W A Y I L L I N O I S S T R E E T NOYES ST displays, the old wing of the wheeler riverboat cruises down
C H AR LES S T
C O L L E G E R O A D
WELL ST REE T CH AR L E S S T of the North is well worth a visit. Discovery II, or Discovery III. En
Exhibits include the famous Blue route, a bush pilot dis plays field
WELL ST
P E G E R R O A D PHILLIPS FIELD ROAD LIVENGOOD AVE C h e n a R i v e r 3RD AVE 2ND AVE P I O N E E R R D Griffin Center FRONT ST bison, a large col lection of Inuit grass runway on the bank. There
take-offs and land ings from a
Babe, a mummified Ice Age
Morris Thompson
Cultural & Visitor
FOX AVENUE
1ST AVE
are visits to the kennels of the
carv ings, and Native costumes.
Park
6TH AVE BONNIFIELD ST Fairbanks Ice Museum 3RD AVE DUNKEL ST HALL ST The architecturally inspiring late Iditarod cham pion Susan
new wing is designed to
Butcher and to a reconstructed
2ND AVE 6TH AVE 5TH AVE represent mountain ridges, ice, Athabaskan village, where
Growden W IE N AVE LATHR O P S T 9TH AVE COWLES STREET 4T H AV E C US H M A N S TR E E T 7TH AVE the aurora, and the tail flukes guides explain Native traditions.
Memorial K E L L U M S T R E E T 8TH AVE LACEY ST S T E E S E E X P R E S S WAY of a sounding whale. Inside, The cruise also sails past the
Park GILMO R E S T BAR N E T TE S T W 10TH AVE
Pioneer CR OSSON AVE Weeks Field the two-story glass view of the confluence of the clear black
Park
Park H ILT ON AV E Library 11TH AVE 12TH AVE NOBLE ST Alaska Range complements waters of the Chena River and
C ON R A D ST A I R P O R T W A Y G A F F N E Y R O A D the Rose Berry Gallery of Alaska the silty, glacial Tanana River.
Riverboat Discovery
1 mile (1.6 km) KENNICOTT AVE
EAGAN AVE
0 meters 700
0 yards 700
Sights at a Glance
1 Morris Thompson Cultural &
Visitor Centre
2 Fairbanks Ice Museum
3 Creamer’s Field Migratory
Waterfowl Refuge
4 Pioneer Park The striking building of the University of Alaska Museum of the North
For keys to symbols see back flap
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