Full of potential, the plaza surrounding the Unknown First Family statue seems to be abandoned and ignored by the city. With some updates and cleaning this could be a really impactful, educational space thant honors the real founders of the area. Loved the first family statue, but it felt weird to honor the exploitation of minerals from the land in plaques beneath the statue. Id recommend stopping if already downtown.

Great place for a stroll, really nice with a coat of snow.

Beautiful park right in the city center! Well maintained and clean. Lovely space to decompress!

Incredible views of the Chena River and downtown Fairbanks.....

The Golden Heart Plaza, is located on 1st Avenue on the Chena River right in the heart of downtown Fairbanks, Alaska.

A beautiful place to just sit and view the Chena river and the city!

Beautiful huge statue there infront of the Chena River. Other statues in the area as well. A nice park to walk in if you want to go down town. I wear there on a very snowy day so it was nice to walk and take pics. The ww2 statue is there and the antler arch. Big tower there as well that plays a nice tune every 30 mins.

Its a nice little place in the heart of Fairbanks with an awesome statue

Nice place in the summer, love the events they have here in the summer and winter. We definitely enjoy the Midnight Sun Festival, Iditarod, and much more.

It was 10pm and there were many drunk people. Saw one passed out and one peed on the sidewalk.

Great representation of history and the people involved.

Cold Steel did a great job. A nice location for a free concert.

Couldnt see much because we came in winter. But Seems like an interesting place

Wonderful place to visit any time of year. Each season invokes a different experience. I especially enjoy reading the inscriptions and reflecting. Also, all of the flags flying nearby can be quite inspirational.

Pretty cool, starts the iditarod here.

Beautiful place, learned a lot about the history of Fairbanks.

Its nice and small dont go there after dark unless you know how to conduct yourself properly.

Nice views

Great Summer Solstice Block party. 3 streets of rides booths and food vendors plus the entertainment!

Bcos I like to meet people from all parts of the world. It has a great view of the doyon building the immaculate conception and people are always pleasant.

Lovely little pocket park on the Chena(sp)River. Could use a couple more benches for those waiting for your buses.

Fairbanks is a jewel of a city. Nice people and things to do. We hope to return again soon.

Beautiful downtown area on the river. Great place to be in the summer!

Beautiful history and the pioneers of Alaska on those plaques

Visited the beautiful park in Fairbanks. The monument has some touching inscriptions.

Another downtown must visit! This plaza is the place to view the river, explore the history and even to visit the log cabin that currently is the home for Yukon Quest sled dog 1000mi. race. It is the endpoint of the Rubber Ducky race at Goldendays festival. Venders use the plaza for many events thru out the year. The statue of the Alaskan Family in the center is surrounded by placks of interesting historical tidbits and important time line events and the people who started and kept Fairbanks running. Enjoy.

Golden Days party today. Come on out and enjoy the food and live music.

Great view of Chena River, local information, interesting statue.

The site is beautiful otherthen the homeless fighting in the park over a stolen bike lol.

A beautiful place to see when visiting Fairbanks, and its connected to other trails that follow the Chenna River in either direction. If you like hot dogs and/or sausage find the guy at Husky Hot Dogs. He has cheap and yummy reindeer and salmon hot dogs that he sets up right in front of the fountain.

Calm nice river view

Really pretty. Right by river

Central meeting place in Fairbanks. Take a taxi here and walk to restaurants, stores, and the visitors center.

Great outdoor space, nice history plaques.

Drunks still hang out down there and be loud sometimes but it is a pretty place

Alaska is a great place to visit.

There are public access bikes for cheap in the plaza. Rent them and ride around. Its awesome!

Lovely plaza by the river. Thats probably the only sightseeing in Fairbanks...

Live bands in summer, places to sit and walk by the Chena River.

Nice place to relax and enjoy the outdoors.

A bit difficult to drive into. Lots of construction at the moment.

Great park to wander around in. It was spring time when I was there so the fountain was not up and running. Spent an hour or more wandering around there reading the signs. The visitors center wasnt open yet but it looks like a neat place. The only issue was there were a number of guys hanging around who had partied a bit to hard the night before. They left me alone after I told them I didnt have any change to give them.

Nice place to wander around in if you have free time. The park is beautiful and it is very clean. The view from the bridge is nice too.

Drunk native central amongst other things...

I really enjoy going past this place when I go through downtown, has a lot of history information around the statue, nice Clock Tower, the path that crosses in goes down most of the Chena River you can make it to Pioneer Park if you stay on the path going down the river

A beautiful place displaying the history of Fairbanks. Very well kept and clean.

I have yet to find the actual parking for the park or figure out how to get a permit, so it ends up costing me about 20 each time I go if its not a city event lol

One of our last stops in Alaska and this place was not good, the area has a lot of graffiti, a lot of homeless and a lot of people just walking down the street screaming at themselves. Do not waste your time stopping by this area. Only place worth visiting in Fairbanks that we found was the Visitor Center and even there we found homeless bathing in the bathrooms

Absolutely gorgeous im sure i would of really loved to stay there, me and my wife spent about 5 minutes there and then all the local homeless started cat calling her and walking over asking for money to get drinks it felt like an ambush everywhere we walked they would stare and yell we ended up rushing back to the car and drove off

It was a good experience to go check it out...

Stopped by there with the family to kill some time yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice they keep the park. If you have a curious spirit you can spend quite some time reading signs that speak of the history of the area.

Small, clean and simple park on the river shore.

Great place to visit

Beautiful flowers, water fountain, sculpture

Great information about the history of Alaska and Fairbanks.

Exquisite

Nice plaza, interesting statue.

Popular place...

Very nice and quiet. Windy when we were there

Uniquely interesting.

Lovely place to visit

Lovely architecture

Nice walk

Nice little park and festival area.

Good to see

Beautiful place.

Love the sun and the river!

Nice

Small river park

Peaceful not to many drunk

Csp will watch you

Nice place

Scenic and in the court district.

Everything

Clean

The same

Beautiful

Nice

You will be asked by a drunk for money or cigarettes at least once a visit.