October 6, 2025
After I left the Dog Mushing Museum I walked around the small downtown part of Fairbanks and stopped along the Chena River. There was a large sign there which had photos and details about the flood which occurred here in August of 1967, three years after the earthquake which hit the state down near Anchorage.
October 6, 2025
This was one thing on my list of things to do that I was hoping would still be open late in the year, and I was in luck. Located on the second floor of an older building downtown, it was a little run down but had lots of things to see. It also doubles as the Fairbanks Community Museum, so it had more things than just dogsleds.
As I mentioned, there were artifacts and tributes to other parts of Alaskan history, such as the Gold Rush and various other things.
I will include some photos about another historic event which occurred in Fairbanks in the next post.
And I will mention something else that I learned about Fairbanks. It gets REALLY cold here! I have a weather app on my phone so I can check conditions and forecasts for various locations. I had put Fairbanks in earlier this year, in early February, I believe, and was shocked at the temperatures I was seeing. Numbers like -40 degrees Fahrenheit at night and “highs” of -14 degrees during the day. Oh, and the difference between sunrise and sunset was only 5 hours the day I looked. I believe it gets even shorter than that at times, and places further north don’t see the sun at all for parts of the winter. I will have another example of those kinds of temperatures soon, when I start heading back to Canada.
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