🎁🎁 UAlaska Museum of the North

🎁🎁 UAlaska Museum of the North Highly recommended indoor activity, admission $20 💚 Lots of rich hands-on details: you can touch mammoth tooth fossils, feel the stiff fur of a polar bear. Under the formal display cases are many pull-out drawers—open them one by one to see more exhibits. Microscopes are placed in many corners; we two science majors rediscovered the joy of bio lab. 🔬 💚 The exhibition is well-organized: Alaska is divided into five zones, each introducing climate & vegetation, animals, and human activities. 🗺️ 💚 There's a hidden Listen room with a cozy atmosphere where you can hear calming audio tracks. 🎧 💚 Some galleries also introduce UA's zoology/archaeozoology research and display local Alaskan artwork. 🎨 💚 The whole building is beautiful inside and out! In winter, the low sunlight often streams through the large windows—so pretty. ☀️ 🅿️ $1.25/hr, plenty of parking, can renew hourly. 🚗 🎁🎁 Firewalkers Alaskan Malamute A highly recommended dog sledding experience. From an animal welfare perspective, they really do it right—older dogs have a retirement life, no dogs are chained in the kennel, and while sledding you can hear the musher calling their names with praise… $95/person + optional tip. 💚 Total 1 hour: includes 20min breed intro, 15min sled ride, and 25min photo time with the dogs + hugging puppies. 🛷📸 💚 The sled fits one or two people, covered with a thick down blanket. The ride is a bit bumpy but not thrilling—relatively gentle. 💚 Every staff member here is a photography pro—the photos they took of us with the dogs are super cute, and the positive vibes are overflowing. You can tell the dogs are happy and don’t mind posing. 🐾❤️ Hope everyone finds activities they love and fully enjoys Fairbanks! #WinterSnowFun#DogSledding#Alaska#StateOfAlaska