{"id":8343,"date":"2015-07-01T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:01:13","slug":"pioneer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/pioneer-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our time in Fairbanks &#8211; only a few days &#8211; was spent catching up on work and laundry. We did get out for only a single day out on the town, most of which entailed the drive up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/ice-hote-museum\/\">Chena Hot Springs and the Ice Museum<\/a>. Later that same evening we rolled across town to <a href=\"http:\/\/co.fairbanks.ak.us\/pioneerpark\/\">Pioneer Park<\/a>, a free historical theme park of the greater Alaska area. Normally city run parks are not very exciting places to visit, but Pioneer Park is the exception to that rule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4736-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4736\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4736-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4736-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4736.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a> <!--more-->We walked among the original buildings of &#8220;Gold Rush Town&#8221;, moved to within the park,\u00a0 now used as store-fronts from local vendors. Then toured the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nenana_(steamer)\">SS Nenena<\/a>, and old steam powered paddle boat, which housed an enormous miniature showcase of historical representations of local towns and villages&#8230; which as it turns out, I actually get a kick photographing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8343 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/pioneer-park\/img_4739\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4739-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4739-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4739-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/pioneer-park\/img_4747\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4747-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4747-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4747-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/pioneer-park\/img_4742\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4742-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4742-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4742-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4756-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4756\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4756-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4756-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4756.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4735-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4735\" width=\"474\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4735-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4735-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4735.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our time in Fairbanks &#8211; only a few days &#8211; was spent catching up on work and laundry. We did get out for only a single day out on the town, most of which entailed the drive up to Chena Hot Springs and the Ice Museum. Later that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,104],"tags":[279,283],"class_list":["post-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alaska","category-other-places","tag-279","tag-2015-alaska"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4732.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-2az","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14697,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions\/14697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}