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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