Quality salmon restaurant nestled within Alaskaland - erm, Pioneer Park - a tourist favorite and quality food!
A crazy giant old gold dredge from the latter days of Fairbanks' original gold rush. You can run around in it! Crazy!
Long-standing bar popular with the college kids, hippies and wanderers. I met Chris McCandless there once! My dad used to have his lions meetings there! They used to have tabletop Mrs. Pacman.
Fairbanks' best museum. Local art, natural history and culture. Recently expanded and renovated. Don't miss.
A sort of amusement park-historical park-picnic grounds celebrating Fairbanks' history. Check out the old town cabins. Visit the railroad car Harding took up to Alaska to launch the Alaska Railroad!
Giant bar and live venue, with films sometime. A favorite with the locals. Run by an old Bostonian! If you're in town for the summer solstice, come to their giant party.
Muskox! Views! Farm animals! Cows with holes in them! Can't go wrong.
Fairbanksans love their bars and this mainly-locals spot nestled in the Goldstream valley is one of the best. Unless you're a Red Sox fan.
No trip to Fairbanks is complete without a trip to the Howling Dog (provided its summer). Come early. Stay late. Stare at the Midnight Sun and have another beer.
Furthest north Denny's in the world! Buy a shirt! Get a super bird! Spend new years eve there. Okay, don't do that.
Ice Hotel! Ice Bar! Indoor and outdoor hot springs-fed pools (which are quite nice!) Japanese tourists! A 65 mile drive straight east of Fairbanks, but so worth it. The drive is great too.
Fairbanks' oldest bowling alley (except for maybe the one on Base). Seedy, ancient and glorious. Built in an old airplane hanger from Wein field, the field across the street & behind the library.
Haha this is where all the letters go that kids write to Santa. Reindeer! Candy canes! Hilarity!
Ronald Reagan ate here! I had my ten year high school reunion here! They have good beers. Sit on the deck in the summer and enjoy the view and the pub menu.
The UAF library is a good time. It's an official US document repository and is easily the best library in Alaska.
The guy that runs this place is a little weird and served in the state house and is generally kinda creepy but the food's good and it could be considered Fairbanks' first "gastropub."
Great local restaurant - features a "real" restaurant and a local bar/patio that serves pub fare. On the water. Nice.
Awesome, storied old local bar that narrowly survived destruction with the addition of the new bridge. Pro tip: They serve Fernet Branca.
Not the theater of my youth - it was destroyed and rebuilt in the 90s - but still the best and pretty much only theater in town, save for occasional movies at UAF or the Loon.
Sleazy, divey bar that no longer has a boat or a hotel. My grandmother named this place!
Get a look at the pipeline! Learn about pigs! See how big it is! Get your picture taken!
My sister once got in trouble with the law for stealing a giant "Big Beef Late" window decal from here. Who could blame her?
A lovely bird preserve where you can check out Canadian Geese, Mallards, Sand Hill Cranes and more. Also check out the old dairy and the nature trail! Occasional moose sightings are not uncommon.
This mall used to be THE JAM, where kids in Fairbanks came to see and be seen. It even had a Musicland! I stole a playboy from the Waldenbooks once. I was a rebel.
This place has a supercomputer. You can go downstairs and look through the windows at it. It's a Cray. It's awesome.
If it's the right time of year, you absolutely must go to the fair. Rides! Giant cabbages! Local art! Hilarious booths! Kids on drugs!
See a baseball game. In 1984, Johnny Cash played here with June Carter Cash. It was awesome.
