The Interior: Places to Explore

At first glance Fairbanks appears to be little more than a sprawling conglomeration of strip malls, chain stores, and other evidence of suburbia (or, as a local writer once put it, "su-brrr-bia"). But look... Read more

A trip through the Fortymile Country up the Taylor Highway will take you back in time more than a century—when gold was the lure that drew hardy travelers to Interior Alaska. It's one of the few... Read more

When you drive north of Fairbanks you enter territory where people are few and far between. Away from the thin line of the highways spread hundreds of thousands of square miles with few signs of human... Read more

Gold! The happy, shining promise of gold is what called Canada's Yukon Territory to the world's attention with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. Maybe as many as 100,000 people set off for the confluence... Read more