After breakfast at the hotel, spend the day touring Fairbanks. Visit the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum, before a historic cruise on the Chena River in a chartered stern wheeler. After the river cruise, lunch is scheduled at a local historical restaurant before you board your coach for a scenic 3-hour drive to Denali. Along the way you will visit Nenana, where you can see miners, trappers, homesteaders, Alaskan Natives, shopkeepers, boat crews and others together in this little river town. It is also home to the Ice Classic and the Tripod Raising, a type of lottery that is truly Alaskan. Arrive at the Grande Denali Hotel. Enjoy a lecture on Denali and dinner at the hotel. Overnight at the Grande Denali Hotel, Denali Park.