At Pike’s Waterfront Lodge, Solar Power Holds On Through The Long Alaskan Winter

The land along the Chena River in Fairbanks has been earning its keep since before Alaska was a state. Lloyd Pike homesteaded the spot under the U.S. Homestead Act after World War II, and in 1959, the year Alaska joined the union, he built a riverside restaurant called Pike’s Landing. After the 1967 flood swept…