Fairbanks, AK Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

FAIRBANKS , 358 miles north of Anchorage, is at the end of the Alaska Highway from Canada and definitely at the end of the road for most tourists. Though flat and somewhat bland, its central location makes a great base for exploring a hinterland of gold mines and hot springs, and a staging point for both the tiny villages scattered around the surrounding wilderness, and for journeys along the Dalton Highway (aka the "Haul Road") to the Arctic Ocean oil community of Prudhoe Bay . Alaska's second most populous town was founded accidentally, in 1901, when a steamship carrying E.T. Barnette, a merchant … more »