Best Places to Shop in Fairbanks

What­ev­er your cloth­ing and gear needs are, you can find top-qual­i­ty prod­ucts — along with advice from Alaskan experts — in this long-run­ning fam­i­ly-owned store with loca­tions in Anchor­age, Fair­banks, and Kodiak.

Watch crafts­men turn birch logs into heir­loom bowls, browse some 1,500 Made in Alas­ka prod­ucts or cus­tom design your own laser engraved bowl while at the Great Alaskan Bowl Com­pa­ny. Start­ed over 20 years ago, this fam­i­ly-run busi­ness is one of the last oper­a­tional bowl mills in Amer­i­ca, and it thrives because of the qual­i­ty prod­ucts and large selection.

The build­ing now known as Co-op Plaza was once the Empress The­atre. Its con­struc­tion in 1927 caused a furor because it was the town’s first struc­ture to be built of rein­forced con­crete, and peo­ple believed that con­crete would crum­ble in the cold Fair­banks winter.