Fairbanks Creek – historic mining area approximately 20 miles north of Fairbanks.
The Hi-Yu mine as it looked in the 1990s About 25 miles northeast of Fairbanks sits one of the area’s most successful lode mines, now abandoned and decaying. The Hi-Yu mine is located...
Gilmore McCarty mill as it looked in the 1990s Fairbanks Creek, 20 miles northeast of town, was one of the most productive gold producing areas around Fairbanks. Genevieve Parker Metcalfe, who was the...
On the same day we visited the Nordale Adit at the head of Wolf Creek, we also drove to the other side of the ridge and hiked in to the McCarty Stamp Mill at...
We tried a new area for lowbush cranberries, also called lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) at Fairbanks Creek about 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks. We saw lots of cranberry plants but few berries. However, we had...
The Eagan cabin at Meehan, Alaska—all that’s left of the mining camp Where, oh, where, oh, where is Meehan? That’s what you might wonder looking at different U.S. Geological Survey maps of Fairbanks Creek. ...
Churn drill on Fairbanks Creek When I visited Fairbanks Creek in the 1990s there were several old churn drills sitting on the dredge tailings, obscured by trees. They had probably been sitting there for...
This photo amuses me, but maybe I just have a weird sense of humor. The building’s front door was locked (or maybe it was just jammed) and there was a “No...
Side of blacksmith shop at Fairbanks Creek. I was out at an old mining camp north of Fairbanks when there was just a little snow on the ground (way before the current cold...
