Anaktuvuk Pass: Eskimo culture, glacially carved mountains over 6400 ft high and the world's largest Barren Ground Caribou Herd - Welcome to the Gates of the Arctic National Park. A guide will introduce you during the 3-4 hour trip to the life-style and history of the village.

Historic Village Tour: Fly over the pristine wilderness and visit the historic Athabascan Native Village on the the banks of the mighty Yukon River, 8 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle Van Tours on the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks, Alaska Mail Plane Flights, Gates of the Arctic National Park Excursions from Bettles, Fairbanks Riverboat Discovery Cruise and Rail Tours to Anchorage, Denali National Park and Talkeetna. They have incorporated large scale industrial mining and the smaller 'Mom and Pop' side of mining into an all-encompassing tour that also features the Trans Alaska Pipeline and a replica of the Tanana Valley Railroad.Fairbanks, Alaska Sightseeing Trips. The family has developed a tour in the heart of the gold fields where the first gold strikes attracted miners from the Klondike. In addition to growing their sternwheel business, the Binkley’s have added a gold mining attraction: Gold Dredge 8. Today, Captain Jim’s grandchildren run the company and Mary B is still active in the business. Over the coming years, Captain Jim and Mary B’s business grew from the Godspeed, a 25 passenger vessel, to the Discovery III, a 900 passenger vessel. In 1950, noting the coming changes in the freighting business, Captain Jim and his wife, Mary, began a river excursion business focusing on sharing their love of Alaska and its culture with visitors. His son, Captain Jim Binkley, Sr., followed in his father’s footsteps and piloted freight vessels on the Yukon and Tanana Rivers in the 1940's.Īs transportation systems changed in the north, railroads and airplanes began to carry much of the freight. He became a respected pilot and boat builder in the North. Binkley hiked over the Chilkoot Pass with other stampeders, he was not so much in search of gold as he was the chance to build and operate boats on the Yukon and its tributaries. The Binkley family’s steamboating tradition goes back over 100 years and five generations.

Riverboat discovery and gold dredge 8