Alaska Gold Locations

The places listed below are user submitted gold prospecting locations. Things change over time - these places may or may not still be open. Be sure to fill your holes, pick up your trash and don't trespass. We are losing good spots all the time.

We really need more info on this state! If you know of any other prospecting locations in this or surrounding areas, please fill out this form. What we need here are fairly specific places like "downstream from where Highway 20 crosses Dry Creek". There are lots of books that say something like "The gold belt runs through ABC & XYZ Counties" or "Gold has been found in ABC River and some of its tributaries". That really doesn't say much about where YOU can find gold, private property issues or Forest Circus rules etc. Please use this form only for suggesting fairly specific places to be added to this page where new prospectors or folks visiting from other areas have a good chance of finding gold. Thank you

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Fairbanks North Star Borough
From Antonio Farnelli
About 17 miles north of Fairbanks on Highway 6 (Steese Hwy), is the Felix Pedro Monument. Across the highway is a claim where panning/sluicing is allowed on old tailings, no motorized equipment. This is the site of the first gold found at Fairbanks, AK. Many people pan and camp here. (as I have seen for over two years, Jan 2003). The Pedro Monument 'rest area' was upgraded in 2002 and now has outhouse type bathrooms.

Porcupine Gold Field
From Yukon Charlie
In Southeast Alaska there is good prospecting near Haines, Alaska. It is located 40 miles NW of the town of Haines on Porcupine Creek. There is abundant black sand with gold flakes and nuggets. They have been entering the small lake for years near the Porcupine Hilton.

From Paul Leatherman
A long time ago in Alaska I ran across a lot of the stuff of dreams but I also found out what mother nature would do to keep these things from being found. If you want to know where to find real gold I can tell you were to go. There is a lake in Alaska by the name of Roosevelt it is off the Denali Hwy by a glacier called Neanana. From the Glen Hwy you take the Denali Hwy to the Neanana Glacier. It's in the same valley but it is about 6000 ft in the Alaska Range mtns. It was still open for mining when I left Alaska in 84. Beware of mother nature and good luck. Too old miner Paul

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