RIVERBOAT DISCOVERY

After you've experienced the Gold Dredge 8 up close, walk into our Main Camp and through our Mining Museum. Packed with history and artifacts from the early 1900's, you'll learn more about the entire gold mining process from cleaning the land, to thawing the frozen ground, to the final recovery of the gold. You'll also learn the history of the hearty sourdoughs that first prospected in the area and the hundreds of workers that operated the dredges during their heyday. Finally, you'll get a chance to see an array of ice age fossils that were found on these very grounds during the mining process... Your adventure begins at Gold Dredge 8 with a ride on a replica of the Tanana Valley Railroad near some of the original rail routes... Sustainable, wild-caught salmon from the Southeast Alaskan ocean waters; filleted, smoked and packaged to be enjoyed around the world.

Primary location: Fairbanks United States