Activities

Prepare to get your hands wet and get a true taste of the 1870's in panning for gold! Take as much - or as little - time as you need to extract gold and other shinies from silt and water, and while treasure isn't always guaranteed, it never hurts to try!

Fire building and safety paired with cooking your own meal, what could be better? Work together with your crew and instructor to make a homemade meal good enough to make any Scoutmaster jealous on your next outing.

Raise your swords and shields! Gather your team and have a massive boffer-weapon battle: you must fight through crowds of your friends and foes alike to bring your team to victory!

Get a good workout in helping build trails around Lost Lake Scout Camp! Learn about conservation, tools, and techniques to build trails, then get a hands-on experience in building part of a trail!

Get a true taste of the Alaskan frontier: Learn knots and lashings, build structures and projects, and work together to learn all about pioneering!

Going back to the classic summer camp experience, you can now shoot shot guns at your Conclave experience! Aim high in the sky for clay pigeons for a shooting experience like no other!

Get a chance to shoot .22 rifles at Alaska's best BSA owned shooting ranges! Compete with your friends or try to beat your own personal best score in a 25-foot range!

Ready your bows! Take part in archery - a core part of scouting since cub scouts. Compete against your friends to get the most points, or practice for yourself in an attempt to achieve one of four clubs - gold, red, blue, or dirt!

Enjoy digging in the dirt? AND finding cool stuff under that dirt? Then get ready for a chance to go metal detecting! Set out with a team or by yourself to seek out treasure buried along the banks of Lost Lake Scout Camp to claim your prize (or an ancient pair of sunglasses)!

Get a taste of the 1980's wild west in this unique opportunity to shoot cowboy action rifles! These guns pack the same kick as a .22, but the experience is a whole new field to explore! You won't find this at any regular summer camp!

You have the unique opportunity to meet and greet with a real sledding dog! Learn about the unique care that goes into training a mushing dog and all about the sport itself! Take the opportunity to ask the trainer questions any burning questions you have about these fantastic sport dogs.

Explore the wilderness of the gorgeous Fairbanks, Alaska offered by their hiking trails! Following 2-3 miles of hiking with connecting trails, you’re given the opportunity to observe Alaskan wild life, nature, and weather in a brief day hike. Bring your ten essentials and prepared for calming hike through Alaskan wilderness!

What better way to spend your day than challenging yourself with a high COPE course! Standing for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience, COPE is a challenge by choice experience that allows you to team build on the ground then take it to the skies, requiring you to climb, swing, balance, jump, rappel, and devise solutions to a variety of problems – all ending in a 300 ft zipline!

With base camp located between the Tanana River and Birch Lake, the beautiful, 90 acre Lost Lake provides endless opportunities for fishing to hone in that summer experience feeling. Partake in catch and release fishing to get the full experience Lost Lake Scout Camp has to offer.

What good event comes without shooting sports? Whether you’re a beginner or a well-seasoned shooter, you can learn to shoot a variety of unique guns and bows, as well as compete in friendly competitions against Arrowmen from across the section! Be it black powder rifles, archery or pistols, you’ll be sure to start your day with a bang!

At Creamer's Refuge, wildlife and people share the forest, wetlands, ponds, and open fields. The refuge protects and enhances habitats for a diverse population of wildlife, especially waterfowl and other migratory birds, while also providing for compatible public uses, such as wildlife viewing, research, and nature education. Visitors can enjoy the walking trails throughout the refuge with ample opportunity to see and connect with wildlife. If you enjoy being one with nature, this is the activity for you.

Explore five regional galleries representing the major ecological regions of Alaska! The Museum of the North will greet you by a large woolly mammoth skull and a full bowhead whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling, inviting you to explore the perspective of Native and non-native artists. With over 2.5 million artifacts and specimens to explore, the US Museum of the North is sure to captivate you for a full day.

The Pioneer Air Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a must-visit destination for aviation enthusiasts and history buffs alike. Founded in 1992, the museum showcases Alaska's rich aviation history and the pioneering spirit of the early aviators who helped shape the state.

Thousands of visitors each year get a chance to see muskoxen, caribou and domestic reindeer on summer tours of this 134-acre site set up for nutritional, behavioral and physiological study by the University of Alaska. The station serves as an educational and outreach facility as well, providing a means of introducing primary and advanced students to wildlife research!

The Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center is a place for gathering, discovery, education and celebration. Organizations are housed together in the center, collaborating to offer visitor services, public lands information, cultural programs, and world-class exhibits that show the history of local lifestyles. Visitors and locals gather here to discover and learn about Interior and Arctic Alaska, celebrating who they are.

Experience the Alaska of 100 years ago! Pioneer Park is an historic village that features original buildings moved from downtown Fairbanks, as well as museums and a Gold Rush town street. But it’s also a theme park with a carousel and train that runs the perimeter, shops, and restaurants. Pioneer Park offers fun for the whole day!

The Alaska Songbird Institute (ASI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of Alaska's birds and their habitats. ASI biologists capture and band migratory songbirds at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks from April-Sept each year. All ages are welcome to visit and tours are available. Get a firsthand experience with Alaska wildlife, see wild birds up close, and help release newly banded birds!

Built in 2005, the museum uses geothermal technology to keep it at 25 degrees Fahrenheit all year. Inside, you'll first notice the ice crystal chandeliers that change colors to depict the Northern Lights. The museum includes a two-story observation tower, kids' fort, jousters on horseback, a giant chess set, a Christmas tree bedroom, a polar bear bedroom, an ice outhouse, and more.

Built on the edge of the Park's Gold Rush Town with a 1900s style architectural facade is Pioneer Hall, home of the Fairbanks Igloos. The Hall houses both the “Big Stampede Show" and the Pioneer Museum, which holds items that tell the stories of Alaska's unique local, territorial and state history that illustrate the triumphs and struggles early pioneers faced as they sought to tame Alaska's wild.