Gold Fever

If you make it Fairbanks, you definitely want to try your luck with a pan at Gold Daughters. They set you up with a gold pan and a good bag of guaranteed dirt, teach you how to pan for gold, and then let you spend as much time as you want sifting through large mounds of non-guaranteed dirt to try to make your fortune.

It is kind of too much hard work to really ever catch gold fever...

But we did end up striking it rich, mainly with the flakes from the bag of guaranteed dirt, but we did find some in the regular dirt which we had dig out with a shovel..

Make sure that you check out Tacos Al Pastor on Old Steese Hwy and order Tacos Al Pastor. Delicioso!

The Large Animal Research Station is a cool place to check out after you are filled up on Mexican food. They research Muskoxen and reindeer and they have presentations and will take you around and teach about them or you can just stop and view them from the entrance.