Alaskas Great Outdoors BY Lisa Rowe
Group Travel Blog
Alaska is a wonderland of beautiful wilderness sites with a plethora of outdoor activities. Fishing during the summer months is quite popular, as well as bear watching, hiking glaciers and flightseeing. Thousands of acres of wilderness preserves provide the perfect backdrop for the outdoor adventurer.
Outdoor Adventures
Gray Line of Alaska features a number of day tours that focus on old Alaska. In Anchorage they begin with a tour of downtown Anchorage, Alaskas largest and most bustling city, before departing for an evening of food and entertainment at The Sourdough Mining Company. Guests enjoy fresh Alaskan seafood and view salmon in the backyard creek. After dinner, a performance of The Adventures of Dusty Sourdough will take you back to the gold rush days with song, storytelling and humor.
There are a number of options in Fairbanks. Gold Dredge No. 8, located outside of town, is the only authentic gold dredge in the area open to the public. Enjoy guided tours throughout the facility, pan for guaranteed gold, and enjoy a hearty miners stew lunch.
Experience Mark Twain and Jack Londons days as riverboat pilots on board the sternwheeler Discovery II. Sail the Chena and Tanana Rivers on the only authentic operating sternwheeler in Alaska. Enjoy a lively narration as you view a trappers cabin, log homes, and a bush pilot performance.
Visit the home and kennels of fourtime Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, as you pass Trail Breaker Kennels along the Chena River. Learn first hand about kennel life and the challenges that go into making a champion dogsled team. You will make a stop at the historic site of a Chena Indian village to see native crafters in action and to learn about Native Alaskan hunting and fishing techniques at an Athabascan Fish Camp.
Mary Shields, the first woman to compete in the Iditarod, is known for her books and from being on television. Learn about Mary thirty years of adventure in mushing, where a dog team carries her to a quiet life in the wilderness. Her achievements have been recognized and honored by the State of Alaska and international dog mushing organizations. Mary has been sharing her dogs with visitors to Fairbanks since 1984. Groups are small to allow for personal attention. You will tour Ms. Shields‚ home while she shares her personal experiences and adventures of 30 years of dog mushing and living a pioneer lifestyle in the interior of Alaska. And you will have the chance to get to know the friendly Husky mixes that make up Ms. Shields current dog team.
Another evening option is a true Alaskan experience in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks‚ frontier theme park. You will enter Mining Valley through an old mining tunnel and see sluice boxes, gold dredge buckets, log cabins and relive those Gold Rush days of old. After an all-you-can-eat dinner, enjoy a rollicking performance of the Golden Heart Revue, which will take you back to the days of 98 with delightful, original music.
Near Denali, join an intimate group for a personal tour of the year-round homestead of three-time Iditarod Sled Dog Race champion Jeff King and his wife, well-known wildlife artist Donna Gates King at spectacular Goose Lake. Widely heralded as the most authentic and entertaining look into bush Alaska lifestyles, your visit includes holding Husky puppies, greeting more than sixty world-class sled dogs, and sharing twenty-five years of Alaskan tales of the trail. Contact: 800-544-2206, www.graylinealaska.com.
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