Fairbanks Day Tour

Learn how to pan for gold in Interior Alaska! Ride the Tanana Valley railroad to a working gold mine and seek your fortune! Begin your tour with a ride on the narrow-gauge rails into the unique permafrost tunnel. Learn about underground mining methods from the past and view prehistoric bones up to 30,000 years old. Located in the original gold fields of the Interior, you experience the past and marvel at the historic sites while touring the present-day working gold mine. Try your hand at gold panning and keep what you find. Daily tours depart from the old train station on Elliott Highway, just past Fox, Alaska.