The road south out of Fairbanks takes you to Nenana there they place this green wood tower on the frozen river. This is done for a fund raising project, they sell chances where you select the day & time the tower falls through the ice.

Nice rustic old log church at Nenana

In the 1960's you had to use this ferry to cross the river to go further down to Clear missile tracking complex

A new highway was under construction in the 1960's that would have a direct route from Fairbanks to Anchorage and pass through Denali Park. When this was taked the road was only a gravel base

The sign into the Harding Lake Park this area reminded me a lot of northern Wisconsin.

Some of the cabins on Harding Lake

Here is a boat being constructed on the shore of Harding Lake. The profile is like a old Mississippi river steamboat.

One day we decided to travel north on the road to Circle Alaska. Here is a road sign showing the mileage to places on the road.

Small gas station in the middle of nowhere. On the road north this road was vastly upgraded when oil was discovered on the North Slope.

From our site a view of Denali which we could see on a clear day