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Fairbanks is synonymous with winter from late October through March and even April in the mountains. We have some of the best Northern Lights viewing in the world made possible by the right weather and clear skies. To increase your chances of viewing the aurora, plan to stay a few nights. There's an event to match your every interest, including winter festivals, top-notch entertainment, and sporting competitions. You can ride in the basket of a dog sled or mush your own dog team.
Head up into the White Mountains National Recreation Area by snowmobile for panoramic vistas and great deep powder snow. Hit the slopes for some downhill action or cross-country ski birch-lined trails. Illuminate your evening with larger-than-life-sized ice sculptures and unwind in one of the Interior's natural hot springs while watching the northern lights. It can't get much better. |
- Northern Lights can be seen an average of 243 nights a year in Fairbanks, with the greatest occurrence in the spring and the fall.
- Children in Fairbanks have outside recess until the temperature drops to -20° F. Playgrounds are covered with snow most of the school year. Popular activities include ice-skating and building snow forts.
- Fairbanks is home to the farthest north motorcycle outpost, synagogue, main university campus, youth development organizations, fast food restaurants and chain stores among others.
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 “Fairbanks is a beautiful place to live, both winter and summer. In winter we feast our eyes on snow-covered forest and far-away, snow-capped mountains and look to the sky for beautiful shows of color; silvery-pink sunsets and sunrises in bright, blue skies; and the green and pink of the aurora’s flowing curtains on a navy-blue, star-studded sky. Winter air is so still you can hear the wind-rush in a raven’s wings and the swish of your snowshoes through dry, fluffy snow. It is never so cold in our dry, calm winters as it is in the damp and windy coastal towns. For a small town, Fairbanks is very cosmopolitan, with a great variety of social and cultural activities and organizations, as well as offering wilderness and wildlife on your doorstep. I am living my 49th year here in this place, and have never considered living anywhere else.”
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Joanne Oehring, pioneer and museum operator
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