Alaska Railroad. Alaska Vacation included Fairbanks, North Pole, Denali, Anchorage, Seward
We've always heard how beautiful the train ride was from Fairbanks down is. After a little research, there's 2 levels of travel on Alaska Railroad. Goldstar Service was the best with Glass Dome Cars, Open Air Viewing Platform, Food & Drink included and large comfortable reclining seats. The open air viewing platform are worth the money alone. We saw 4 Moose, a Bear, Nesting Osprey, & a Bald Eagle. The cheap seats are roughly 60-65 percent cheaper, but not nearly as enjoyable. It cost $500 a person from Fairbanks down to Anchorage. We stopped in Denali for a couple days & hoped back on to Anchorage. Spent a couple days in Anchorage and drove down to Seward which is roughly 3 hours depending on how many photo stops. We also took one of the tours on Resurrection Bay. It was a bit chilly, but each stop was beautiful. Highlights included, a Humpback Whale, Puffins, Stellar Sea Lions and Bald Eagles. The scenery isn't bad either. Unfortunately no Orca's or groups of Humpbacks. If you can, take Alaska Railroads Goldstar Service from Denali to Talkeetna. In our humble opinion, that's the prettiest route.
Aurora in Alaska
Charming Holidays presents 5-6 Days Alaska Northern Lights Experience. The tour takes you to the arctic circle, stay at Borealis basecamp and join all fun activities in the north. This is the perfect combination of location and conditions offers one of the best opportunities anywhere to see the mystical Lights for yourself!
Alaska - Anchorage to Fairbanks
Alaska: Chena Hot Springs
Chena Hot Springs is a hot spring, resort, and unincorporated community in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, 56.5 miles northeast of Fairbanks near the Chena River State Recreation Area. The resort makes use of the first low-temperature binary geothermal power plant built in Alaska, and is working on several alternative energy projects, including production and use of hydrogen and vegetable oil for fuel. The resort is conducting collaborative experiments in greenhouse production of vegetables with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
Chena Hot Springs was founded over 100 years ago by two gold mining brothers, Robert and Thomas Swan. In 1905, Robert Swan was suffering from rheumatism and needed a place to calm his pain and be comfortable. The two brothers set out to find the hot springs. It took them a little over a month to reach the hot springs after searching for it in Interior Alaska’s harsh landscape. In 1911, twelve small cabins were built to accommodate visitors. The twelve cabins developed, and they became one of the most famous resorts in the interior of Alaska. Chena Hot Springs became so famous that the United States Department of Agriculture sent chemists to analyze the water. The characteristics of the water are very different from other American hot springs.
The coordinates for Chena Hot Springs Alaska are 65'03 N and 146'03 W (65.05, -146.05). The average yearly temperature for the area is −4.9 °C (23.2 °F), with the highest temperature being in July at 20.4 °C (68.7 °F) and the lowest temperature being in January at −31.2 °C (−24.2 °F). Annually the average amount of precipitation is 357 millimetres (14.1 in). The average snowfall amount in Chena Hot Springs is 161.8 centimetres (63.7 in) annually.
Chena Hot Springs has visibility of the Aurora borealis, especially around the March equinox.
Chena Hot Springs Resort uses two 200kW Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) geothermal energy power plants to generate energy, the first in Alaska. The resort moved the diesel generators used in the past to a backup role since July 2006, and it is successful in reducing the cost from 30 cents/kWh to 5 cents/kWh. The resort owners have future plans in increasing the work output of the powerplant from 200 kW to 1MW. An increase to 730 kilowatts was accomplished.
The Alaska Railroad Trip
Welcome to Part 2 of my Alaska Adventure! This 11 hour train ride from Fairbanks to Anchorage flew by! The Alaska Railroad team assisted us in putting together the best possible footage for you to enjoy! I can't wait to take this ride again, during the summer! I love Alaska! #AlaskaRailroad
Alaska Railroad journey from Fairbanks to Anchorage with NASJA
It was nearly 30 below zero when our NASJA delegates boarded the train for our 11 hour trip through the Alaska wilderness. We traveled beneath towering mountains, above frozen rivers, beside caribou and moose, and through the mid-section of our 49th State. Stopping dozens of times along the route for photo ops and waits for wildlife to cross the tracks, we were graced with a clear cold day for excellent viewing inside the cozy rail coach. We passed within 45 miles of 20,000 foot Mt. McKinley, the highest Peak in the U.S., but the only clouds we saw all day were those that obscured sight of this Alaskan natural wonder. Our host on the trip was Harry Ross who has a 44 year history as an Alaska Railroad Conductor, and the subject of a documentary produced by PBS which aired on KQED. Harry is also a jazz and blues singer, and we'll present his rendition of
Misty in a future post. Along the way, we passed Wasilla, Alaska...home of Sarah Palin and the headquarters of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. Ms. Palin was not at home. We saw her the previous night in Fairbanks to greet husband Todd who finished 2nd in Iron Dog Snowmachine Championship which concluded in front of our hotel. About a dozen active journalists of the North American Snowsports Journalist Association will be producing stories on that race, the World Championship of Ice Sculpting, a visit to the University of Alaska Museum and the Alaska Pipeline from our brief stay in Fairbanks. Now in Anchorage, another couple dozen NASJA press members will join us for our annual convention that begins Tuesday at Alyeska Ski Resort about 45 minutes south on the Seward Highway. Next Saturday, it's the start of the Iditarod in Anchorage with a Glacier Cruise scheduled for Sunday, so plenty more reports, stories, and interviews and videos upcoming from the Great State of Alaska.
Top 13 Tourist Attractions in Fairbanks - Travel Alaska
Top 13 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Fairbanks - Travel Alaska:
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum, Running Reindeer Ranch, Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Bouchard's International Dog Mushing and Sled Museum, The Aurora Ice Museum, Pioneer Park, Georgeson Botanical Garden, McKinley Explorer, Chena River State Recreation Area, Large Animal Research Station, Palace Theatre, Chena Indian Village
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Alaska the mighty, magnificent and magical natural wonders.
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A Winter Trio in Anchorage
Winter weekends are jam-packed with cool events that honor Alaska traditions and celebrate the last great days of winter including the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and Tour of Anchorage Nordic ski race.
Tourist Train From Anchorage To Denali National Park Alaska
Princess train from Anchorage to Denali National Park with views of Mount Foraker, Mount Hunter and Denali from south of Talkeetna, and more views of Denali from Hurricane and Broad Pass, passing thru small villages like Willow, Chase, Hurricane, Cantwell and crossing the Susitana and Hurricane Gulch Bridges.
Arctic train ride through Alaska!
We didn't have any plans for Valentines day yet, so on a whim we decided to take the train from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Took 12 hours, the whole route was breath taking! They even stopped the train a few times when there were caribou or moose outside. Amazing experience
Alaska, USA - 2 of 28 - GoldStar Dome Train from Anchorage to Seward
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Fairbanks City Tour
Fairbanks City Tour year round is offered by Alaskan Culture Tours. info and video at: 907-322-3483
Boyd also owns Alaskan Culture Tours, that also, has affordable Fairbanks tour packages and a Fairbanks City Tour personally given by Ben Boyd, an Alaska Mountain Man who made his living from the land using a sled dog team.
This Video is a Historical Documentary about Fairbanks Alaska's biggest annual event that started in 1935 and was originally call the Ice Carnival and Dog Derby. Historical film footage and photos were edited to tell this story. The video is produced by Ben Boyd, Producer of many Historical, Wildlife, and Native Culture Videos. This is an example of the vast research he has done about Alaska's History and Cultures. He is the owner of Alaska Northern Lights Tours and is your guide for the Fairbanks City Tour. He is an Alaska Mountain Man who lived a Traditional Native way of Life in remote Village above the Arctic Circle. At age 45 he entered the University of Alaska Fairbanks and after 12 years of work received a MA Degree in Cultural Documentation. He has both the education and personal experience to give you a vivid look at Alaska's history and cultures.
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A trip to Fairbanks, AK
November 2014
Tours-TV.com: Winter sports in Anchorage
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C-17 Take off from JBEAR at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage Alaska
C-17 Take off from JBEAR at Elmendorf AFB in A
nchorage Alaska, Just neat to watch !
And no I didn't edit it so there are some zooms sorry!
Aurora over Whittier Tunnel entrance in Portage, Alaska
Aurora over Whittier Tunnel entrance in Portage, Alaska
Alaskan RR Tourist Train
A brief video of our ride on the Alaskan Railroad, departing Denali to Anchorage, Alaska. We enjoyed this remarkable 8 hour trip in the cars which had wrapping overhead windows throughout the entire length of the car as well as a deck open to the outdoors - which is where I was standing while shooting all of this footage. The dining room was on the deck below us! It was an amazing trip to say the least.
We were to have been on the Princess Cruise Lines Coaches, but a mechanical failure of some kind took FOUR of those coaches out of commission. Using the Jedi mind trick, some of my family members were able to book us onboard the ARR tourism coaches. This trip is a MUST DO for any true rail fan - add it to your bucket list...!
Alaska Travel Tours
Alaska scenes of wildlife, flying Mt. McKinley, fishing, glaciers, etc. An example of one of our video ads. Originally produced for an Alaskan tour company as a PBS TY commercial, then re-cycled for their web site.
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Producer: Barry Murray
Still Photographer: Ty Murray