- Our list of the best things to do in Fairbanks, Alaska, features the top 36 nearby activities — including 16 great attractions with user approval ratings of 90% or more!
- Fairbanks, AK has a variety of great sights and experiences nearby. Top categories include: Outdoor Places, Museums & Galleries, Tours, and Winter Activities.
- The results below include the top 34 things to do within the city of Fairbanks, AK , followed by 2 popular activities in nearby cities, including North Pole and Pleasant Valley
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Paint Nite invites guests to break away from a typical night out with the perfect cocktail of creativity and conversation.
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McKinley Explorer is a scenic railroad operating between Anchorage, Talkeetna, Denali, and Fairbanks. Guests on the train enjoy automated narration of the sites that they are seeing, live presentations, and dining services.
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EcoSeg Alaska offers three Segway tours of Fairbanks. These tours include a Downtown Snapshot Tour of the history of the town and what makes it unique, a Chena Riverfront tour leaving from downtown and following the river to Pioneer Park, and a Segway Experience Tour with less talking.
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93 votes
6090 Emancipation Lane, Fairbanks, AK 99709
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Sirius Sled Dogs Day Tours provides several tour packages where guests can either ride in the sled or stand on the runners while the dogs mush away. During the summer, the dogs pull carts instead of sleds.
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Angel Rocks Trail is a flat, wide trail traveling through a spruce and aspen forest alongside the Chena River. About 1/4 mile into the trail is a beaver dam with an interpretive sign describing beavers and their exceptional engineering skills.
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Recognized as 'The Number One Show Throughout Alaska and Canada', Palace Theater hosts a special performance of 'The Golden Heart Revue'. The show features a humorous and educational take on the early history of Fairbanks.
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A documentary about the 1928 dredge which mined the land for millions of ounces of gold, the Gold Dredge No. 8 is a family owned business since 1994. Gold digging and panning are also incuded in th tour.
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1216 votes
1300 College Road, Fairbanks, AK 99701
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On the 2,000 acres of Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge there are 4 miles of trails, on from which birdwatchers can spot cranes, ducks, and geese, among the many other bird species.
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Created from over 1,000 tons of ice and snow, The Aurora Ice Museum is the biggest year round ice-museum in the world. Besides the ice sculptures and the documentaries, it has an Ice Bar which serves drinks from ice-carved glasses.
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At the Fairbank's Ice Museum, visitors can view life-size ice sculptures carved by local artists, attend the international ice carving competition held each March, and watch a slideshow on the Aurora Borealis. Visitors can also talk to craftspeople who carve these pieces.
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The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was constructed by over 70,000 construction workers and cost over $8 billion to build. Visitors can touch the pipeline, and learn how the inside of the pipeline is kept clean.