The Palace Saloon, located in the historic theme park Alaskaland, features a nightly show in the summertime called the Golden Heart Revue. If visitors prefer rolling up their sleeves with a cool beverage and letting someone else do the work for them, there are two revue shows in Fairbanks that highlight the golden days of Interior Alaska. Once off the train, visitors get to see a modern mining camp in operation and, like Gold Dredge #8, they get to try gold panning themselves. Visitors take a trip through a historic mining camp aboard a vintage 1904 narrow-gauge railway that transported miners to the dredge sites. The camp is located in the heart of the historic Fox gold fields, a mining area since the early 1900s. There is also a chance to find gold at the El Dorado Gold Camp, as well as the chance to see a mining camp in action. Afterward, they can help themselves to a huge miner's lunch in the mess hall. They can also roll up their sleeves, grab a shovel and try their luck at gold panning in the area. In the summer visitors can tour the dredge. Now located nine miles north of Fairbanks on the Old Steese Highway, the dredge was designated a National Historic District by the U.S. During its 30 years of operation, Gold Dredge #8 took in approximately seven million ounces of gold from Goldstream and Engineer Creeks. operated eight dredges in the Fairbanks area between 19. While the earlier gold rushs involved smaller mining operations, the mining of later years was done with large dredges operated by companies such as the Fairbanks Exploration Co. This enormous gravel-eating, rock-crushing machine operated from 1928 to 1959 during Fairbanks' second gold rush. These tours and attractions are informative, entertaining and, in some instances when gold panning is involved, profitable! Visitors to Fairbanks will find a number of tours and attractions based on the colorful history of the area. And today, while it has been some time since Pedro made his strike on that eventful day, gold fever still exists in Alaska's second-largest city.
What is known is that Pedro's strike helped spur a stampede that would transform the trading post known as Fairbanks into a thriving town with the largest population in Alaska in just a few years. There's gold in them thar hills! It's difficult to say if those were the exact words gold miner Felix Pedro shouted out to the residents of the small trading post along the Chena River in 1902, after he struck gold in a creek located in the hills some 10 miles to the north. Gold! The Yellow Rock that Made Fairbanks
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