Pioneer Park is a 44-acre city park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States run by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Department of Parks and Recreation. The park commemorates Alaskan history with multiple museums and historic displays.
Pioneer Park was opened in 1967 as Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition to celebrate the centennial of the Alaska Purchase from Russia.
Highlights of the park include the Denali Observation car (“Harding Railroad Car”) used by President Warren G. Harding during a visit to Alaska in 1923 to formally complete the Alaska Railroad and the sternwheeler SS Nenana that carried passengers and cargo on the Tanana and Yukon rivers from 1933 to 1954. At 230 feet it is the second-longest wooden-hulled ship still in existence.
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