This two-hour tour of a working gold mine begins with a ride aboard the Tanana Valley Railroad, a narrow gauge train. Passengers ride through a permafrost tunnel, past Fox Creek, to El Dorado Camp.
Visitors watch a modern sluice box in operation and listen to stories of life in the mining camps.
Then visitors try their own hand at panning for gold and can assay and keep their find. After complimentary cookies and coffee, they board the train for the short ride back to the station, nine miles north of Fairbanks at Fox . Click to go to El Dorado Gold Mine's own Web site.