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A statue of Alaska's unknown first family stands along the Chena River near the city's visitors center and old church.

The Golden Heart of the Interior blends the cosmopolitan and rustic. Both nature and industry are on display here.

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Fairbanks has city bus service -- the MACS, or Metropolitan Area Commuter System. It covers the Fairbanks North Star Borough, including Fairbanks International Airport, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the city of North Pole and Fort Wainwright.

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Fairbanks has jet and propeller-plane service to Anchorage and the world beyond.

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Fairbanks sits at the hub of the Interior. Highways leading to the Golden Heart City are the Richardson, Parks, Elliott and Steese highways and Chena Road. The Dalton Highway to the Arctic Coast springs off the Elliott Highway north of town.

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Head out along the Chena for grayling

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Although Fairbanks isn't an angling hot spot, the Chena River offers opportunities for catch-and-release grayling fishing. Grayling, popular for their willingness to bite, are available just about anywhere in the Interior where a road crosses a stream.

Southeast of town, lakes along the Richardson Highway present grayling and northern pike. For salmon, many Fairbanksans head down the Richardson to dipnet kings and reds out of the Copper River and to seek salmon and halibut in Prince William Sound out of Valdez.

Fairbanks is also the takeoff spot for anglers heading into the bush, especially the meandering rivers of the national wildlife refuges where monster pike lurk.