Local Attractions

Fox General Store
Phone: 1-907-457-8903
Located 10 miles up the Steese Highway in downtown Fox. For gas, groceries, propane, a liquor store and movie rentals. Pick up a newspaper ...coffee, local gossip, ice, a community cookbook, an attitude...

Hilltop Restaurant and Truck Stop
Phone: 1-907-389-7600
Located 5 miles up the Elliot Highway. For gas, groceries, liquor store or any meal from their menu, you won't go away hungry! Try a scoop of the ice cream...or one of their pies.

El Dorado Gold Mine
http://www.eldoradogoldmine.com
Ride the Tanana Valley Railroad on a two hour trip through Alaska's gold mining history. Enjoy a walking tour, lessons in gold panning, chat with local miners and try a hand at panning for gold yourself! You may have to dodge a tour bus or two, but it is a fun spent afternoon!

Chatanika Lodge, Bar and Restaurant
Phone: 1-907-389-2164
Fax: 1-907-389-2166
http://www.phantomhouse.com/cafes/cafes_chatanika.html
Located 27 miles up the Steese Highway. Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, music on the weekends, a must see in your travels. Just the building itself is an adventure! Take a peek at the live turtles!

The Howling Dog Saloon
http://www.howlingdogsaloon.com/
Located 10 miles up the Steese Highway in downtown Fox, we have the farthest North Biker Bar. Complete with music on the weekends, snacks in the back, bras on the ceiling and volley ball in the yard! Closed in the winter due to no heating system! Park your Hog outside please!

The Silver Gulch Brewery
http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/main.html
Fox is also home to the Silver Gulch Brewery. Try some of our Local Beer!

The Turtle Club Restaurant
http://www.alaskanturtle.com/
Located on the Old Steese Highway, also in Fox, has some of the finest Prime Rib Dinners. A friendly community Bar and big screen TV for Monday night football! A long winters night might bring out the Karaoke machine. Ear plugs available upon request.

Fox Lions Community Clubhouse
Located on the Steese Highway immediately past the weigh station in downtown Fox. The third Wednesday of every month, we meet at 6:30 p.m. Stop in and meet some locals, share Lions Club Stories or purchase one of their Community cookbooks or Lions Club pins. Patty was on the Cookbook committee, writing the history of Fox and designed the Lions Club pin. You will be glad you stopped in! We are a fun bunch of friends and people!

Mt. Aurora Skiland
http://home.att.net/~Skiland/
Phone: (Office) 1-907-2314 or 1-907-456-SNOW for current conditions.
Wax up those skis and hit the slopes! Just six miles from here, beginner to advanced slopes, double chairlift, Alpine and Snowboard Equipment rentals, if they got snow, they ski!

Gold Dredge No. 8
http://www.GoldDredgeNo.8.com
Phone: 1-907-457-6058.
While visiting Alaska take a tour of the regions most notorious gold mine, Gold Dredge No. 8. Here you will have the chance to tour the inside of the dredge and take in the true size of this historic site. They offer a short video with actual footage of the working dredge for guests to see how the process of thawing, stripping and dredging was performed. Afterward, take a “poke” at panning for gold yourself and feel like a true prospector.