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The Festival is multi-discipline, offering classes in
instrumental and vocal music, dance, theatre, opera
theatre, storytelling, healing arts, visual arts and
figure skating. Registrants can choose from over 100
classes held daily. Registration is open to adults ages
18 and older, experienced dance students 12 and older
and skaters of any age.
In addition to classes, the Festival offers a variety
of performances featuring both guest artists and
registrants. During the two weeks of the Festival,
visitors to the Fairbanks area can enjoy everything
from the informal “Lunch Bites,” cabaret style
performances given each day at the lunch hour, to
more formal concerts. For more information on the
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, please visit our
website at www.fsaf.org or call us at (907) 474-8869.
For the active adventurer, Fairbanks also offers Running Reindeer Ranch
flight seeing, rafting, boating, biking, ballooning and
many more outdoor activities. or enjoy a soothing dip in the local hot springs. Prince Rupert, BC. Visitors can access Alaska—the
Birdwatchers should be sure to visit the Alaska Bird How to Get Here Inside Passage, Southeast and Southwest, the Aleutian
Observatory in Fairbanks. This center for education The Fairbanks International Airport is close to Islands and the Alaska Peninsula on the vessels of the
and research hosts a nature center with bird watching downtown Fairbanks, with shuttles, rental transfers AMHS fleet. Passenger and vehicle capacity as well
information, educational displays, and trail access to and bus service. Alaska Airlines and Northwest as amenities such as staterooms, food service and
Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. Airlines (during the summer) offer daily direct flights observation lounges vary on each ship. A popular trip
Just north of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway from Fairbanks and the Lower 48. Several regional for travelers is to continue north via motor home to
near Fox, visitors can make close contact with an and commuter carriers provide air service between Denali. For more information visit www.alaska.gov/
impressive portion of the Alyeska (or Trans-Alaska) Fairbanks and numerous interior rural communities ferry or refer to the Alaska Marine Highway section
Pipeline as it passes near Fairbanks on its run from as well as Anchorage and Canada. of this travel guide.
Prudhoe Bay to Valdez at a special pipeline display The last full-service railroad in the United States, Ground shuttle service companies provide daily
area. Since completion in 1977, the Pipeline has the Alaska Railroad provides daily summer and scheduled transportation throughout Alaska and
transported billions of barrels of oil. weekend winter service between Fairbanks and the Yukon. Statewide charter services can also be
For the ultimate in adventure, visit Fairbanks Anchorage. www.alaskarailroad.com arranged. Autos, trucks, vans and motor homes can
between November and April. That’s when you’ll The Alaska Marine Highway System has been be rented at a number of convenient locations. Rental
experience Fairbanks’ secret season: winter. Watch operating year-round since l963, with regularly cars, shuttles and taxis are available in addition to
the Northern Lights weave across the starlit skies, scheduled passenger and vehicle service to over 30 the Fairbanks North Star Macs Borough Transit Bus
zoom down a wooded trail behind a team of huskies communities in Alaska, plus Bellingham, WA and System.

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