Athabascan fiddle music is a staple in interior Alaska. Each November, the Athabascan Fiddle Festival and Gwich’in Fiddle Dance draw fans to Fairbanks.
Where the unparalleled meets the unexpected
Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior, and a well-known and commonly visited place within Alaska. While summertime is the most popular time for visiting, with at least 21 hours of sunlight each day, traveling to this area in the winter is a trip that has its fair share of benefits too.
A cool city for more reasons than the weather.
Riding the rails in search of fresh hops.
[by Hudson Lindenberger]
The Dalton Highway in September
Artists of a unique medium converge in Fairbanks, Alaska every March to create masterpiece sculptures made from giant blocks of ice. Fairbanks’ ice, dubbed the Arctic Diamond, is renowned for its purity, which lures craftsmen from all parts of the globe to attend the World Ice Art Championships in the city’s hub. It is indeed a competition, but it’s also a festival. During a frenetic few weeks, visitors can watch the artists transform rectangular ice blocks weighing thousands of pounds into geometric wonders the sizes of small trees. At night these imaginative scenes and mythic figures shimmer and sparkle under colored lights. This is ephemeral art in the truest sense, the kind that melts, evaporates and sublimates until nothing remains but a space to be filled the next year with another magical landscape.
