Gold Dredge Number 8

Address	1755 Old Steese Hwy
Location	Fairbanks, AK 99712
Transportation	To get there, go north on the Steese Expressway from town, turn left on Goldstream Rd., turn left again on the Old Steese Hwy
Admission	$19 tour only, $23 with gold panning, $33 with cafeteria lunch
Hours	Mid-May through mid-Sept tours start hourly 9:30am-3:30pm
Phone	907/457-6058
Website	www.golddredgeno8.com

One of the best historic gold mining sites in Alaska, Gold Dredge is a 1928 mine that allows visitors to play around and scoop for gold. Standing five decks tall on a barge in a pond, Gold Dredge operates by scooping up gravel from one end, and then the inside mechanism would digest the gold from the gravel, and would dump the spoils out the back. The tour company that bought the historic site added a museum to the dredge that displayed gold camp buildings, which showed the harsh colorless life lived by the miners. The 90-minute tour starts off with a movie, and then moves onto a half hour on the dredge, and then finally gives visitors a chance to pan for gold themselves. It’s a fun little tour that will have you hoping to find some real authentic gold nuggets.