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Experience all that “The Last Frontier” has to offer. With three convenient locations in and around Fairbanks, Fountainhead Hotels puts you right in the middle of a wide range of colorful events celebrating the adventurous spirit of Alaska.

Watch intrepid mushers and their loyal huskies compete against nature and each other at the Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race, a 1000-mile sled race between Whitehorse, Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska. Following right on the race’s heels is the World Ice Art Championships. Also known as the Fairbanks Ice Festival, the rules are quite simple: The town of Fairbanks supplies the biggest ice blocks in the world, and an international lineup of sculptors uses their creativity and inspiration, and some really powerful chainsaws, to craft some of the coolest, most amazing works of art you’ll ever lay eyes on!

Just as the snow begins to melt, the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum Car Show at Wedgewood Resort rolls into Fairbanks to really heat things up. Summer brings the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival right before bird watchers from all over Alaska flock to Fairbanks for the Sandhill Crane Festival at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.