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Travel Tips
Travel in Interior Alaska is filled with unexpected delights—a surprise aurora display, the thrill of a beautiful snowstorm, exciting moments with wildlife, and more. Know before you go and learn about the key details that will help you maximize your time and create lasting memories.
Traveling to Fairbanks, Denali, the Interior and Arctic Alaska is much easier than you might expect. Visitors to Alaska can easily travel via plane, guided tour van, train, boat, or even dog teams. People use rivers as roads, commuting long distances with boats, airplanes can land on snow, land and water, bikes can be used in deep snow with “fat” tires, and skis are used for leisure and transportation. Locals and visitors are resourceful, often piecing together multiple forms of transportation to get from point A to point B.
Make the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center Center in downtown Fairbanks your first stop and learn all about the exciting ways you can explore Fairbanks and the surrounding areas. In this section, you'll find a variety of travel tools and tips that make travel to and around Alaska sensational and accessible.
Golden Heart Alaskan
The thing I like best about Alaska is…that we have extraordinary freedom to explore the land on our own terms, whether by foot, canoe, dog team, skis or Super Cub. And we have an extraordinary landscape to explore, a landscape still vast and wild enough to support wildlife such as caribou, Dall sheep, wolverine, lynx and more. Knowing that if we wanted to, we could hook up our dog team and travel from our house to the edge of North America without ever crossing a road, provides a sense of Alaska as a place apart from the ever more populous, more urbanized world.
-Lisa Jodwalis,
Park Ranger, Interpretation, Bureau of Land Management
