Fairbanks City Highlight Tour

Overview

Enjoy a day out on the town in Fairbanks, Alaska. Visit the main highlights and attractions in the "Golden Heart City". Travel through time as you explore the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center. Stop at the famous Trans-Alaska-Pipeline Viewpoint and learn how this massive project was completed. Then, head uphill to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to take in the wonders of the Museum of the North.

Finally, end the day with a trip to the Santa Claus House in the North Pole!

City: Fairbanks

Mon 24 Feb

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Starting at $140.00

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Mon 24 Feb

Starting at $140.00

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What's Included

Bottled water

Driver/guide

Live commentary on board

Hotel pickup and drop-off (selected hotels only)

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Please note Santa may not be present every day. His hours and appearances are subject to change without notice. A visit with Santa is not guaranteed.
Minimum age 5-year-old.
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands

What To Expect

Alyeska Pipeline Viewing Point

The pipeline viewpoint is the perfect spot to explain the astonishing engineering of the pipeline, the oil field in Prudhoe Bay, and the Alaska oil industry.

Santa Claus House

Visit Santa at his home in North Pole. The Santa Claus House is full with Alaska souvenirs. * Please note a Santa Claus sighting is not guaranteed.

Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center

The Morris Thompson Cultural Center welcomes you with great exhibits about Interior Alaska.

University of Alaska Museum of the North

Dramatic architecture and new exhibit galleries make the museum an extraordinary destination. Discover fascinating stories about Alaska’s cultures, places, and wildlife. * Closed on Sunday (Sept. & Oct.)

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Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

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Reviews (73)

Midji R

Aug 2017

This is a very worthwhile tour, our tour guide is very knowledgeable, he picked us up promptly at 8 am in the hotel. We went to North Pole to see Santa's house which is also a gift shop, then to Santa's barn to see his 8 beautiful Reindeers! We also visited Trans Alaska Pipeline, a couple of museum, one is a Community museum at down town Fairbanks, and the second one is a modern and beautiful Museum of the North - managed by University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Our guide accompanied us during the museum visit, and gave us further inside knowledge of the local terrains during different season, and how the native Alaskan travel during those time.

Richard S

Aug 2017

Brandon, our guide arrived promptly at 8 and it turned out that we were the only two people on this tour. He was very enthusiastic and exceptionally knowledgeable about the Fairbanks area as well as the native people who originally inhabited Alaska.

We visited the Fairbanks native peoples cultural center and learned more about the people who originally inhabited Alaska. Brandon guided us through the exhibits and explained how the artifacts related to the very survival of the original Alaskan people. We then visited the Alaskan Pipeline and saw how it was constructed. We also visited University of Alaska at Fairbanks where they had a very fine museum of more recent Alaskan history. Our last stop was to the city of the North Pole where we visited and took pictures with Santa Claus. Surprisingly, they also had a Christmas Gift Shop there too.

It was a great day tour!

James P

Jul 2017

Excellent tour with interesting information very well presented by Tristen. It was great that Tristen was a native of Fairbanks and had many valuable pieces of historical information. He was able to put them into context so that we were able to get a very good picture of Fairbanks and how it came to be, from founding to the present. He also was able to discuss how it might evolve as future events might impact the future of Fairbanks.

Tristen was very patient and thorough in his descriptions at the various stops and along the way between stops. He was able to present an excellent overview of Fairbanks over the course of this tour. FIVE STARS earned.