Steese Highway – 165-mile road that runs from Fairbanks, near the confluence of the Chena and Tanana Rivers, northeast to Circle at the Yukon River. Began as Fairbanks-Circle Trail in about 1902.
In the past two days our Kickstarter campaign has met and then greatly exceeded our funding goal! Thanks to an article in Thursday’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper, our Kickstarter campaign went from about $850...
Poker Flat Research Range, owned and operated by the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute (GI), is a rocket range located at Chatanika, 30 miles north of Fairbanks. Construction on the facility began in 1968,...
Colors are turning here in Interior Alaska. I took this photo on a blueberry picking expedition up the Steese Highway on August 30th.
Berry Camp along Eagle Creek at about Mile 103 of the Steese Highway Clarence Berry was one of the “Kings of the Klondike,” that small cohort of early gold-seekers who made fortunes in the...
Chatanika Gold Camp as it looked in 1994 On a southeast-facing hill just north of Mile 27.5 of the Steese Highway sits Chatanika Gold Camp. The camp used to be the Fairbanks Exploration Company’s...
This another photo from my recent foray out into the fresh snow.
Gathering berries on a drizzly taiga hillside, I chance across a spider gathering raindrops in her web, Pass by her berry-laden bush, And bring home memories instead.
Because of the hot dry weather earlier this summer, the blueberry harvest right around Fairbanks has been disappointing. However, on a scouting expedition up the Steese Highway about a month ago we found a promising...
The Central Roadhouse as it looked in the mid 1980s In the summer of 1896, Josiah Spurr, Frank Schrader and Harold Goodrich floated the Yukon River, investigating mining areas for the U.S. Geological...
Adams “Leaning Wheel” grader used on Steese Highway, now at Circle Distirct Museum in Central Ever since the 1892 discovery of gold along a Yukon River tributary called Birch Creek, prospectors have been tramping...
