Fairbank AK -- Northern Lights ????
This is not strictly an RV issue, but maybe my RV friends will be able to help me. About 20 or 30 of my family members and I wish to see the northern lights. We were thinking about a trip to Fairba...
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I have been to Alaska for work dozens of times. I have been to Fairbanks many times in the winter as well as Barrow and Prudhoe Bay. I have never seen the northern lights while in Alaska. Not saying they can't be seen, just saying the weather never seems to cooperate. I know once while in Prudhoe, the bus driver told me they were really out the night before I got there, but the winds and blowing snow had it so you couldn't see them when I was there.
So, good luck. there are tours you can take out of the Fairbanks area, so just book one. They will know what is going on.
As for weather, dress for -40. When you pick up a rental car at the airport, they will tell you you have to warm the car up for 40 minutes or so before you drive off. If you break a belt or do damage to the car because you drove it too soon, that is on you. It's nice to get cars with remote start, but one year the week before Christmas I had a car with no remote start and only 1 key. I had very expensive gear with me so I wasn't going to leave the car running with the keys in it. So, dress for the very cold weather.
With a negative COVID test you can go this year. Might be less other people doing the same thing.
So, good luck. there are tours you can take out of the Fairbanks area, so just book one. They will know what is going on.
As for weather, dress for -40. When you pick up a rental car at the airport, they will tell you you have to warm the car up for 40 minutes or so before you drive off. If you break a belt or do damage to the car because you drove it too soon, that is on you. It's nice to get cars with remote start, but one year the week before Christmas I had a car with no remote start and only 1 key. I had very expensive gear with me so I wasn't going to leave the car running with the keys in it. So, dress for the very cold weather.
With a negative COVID test you can go this year. Might be less other people doing the same thing.
