Topic starter
04/11/2011 6:06 pm
I've been looking around for steamboats on Northwest rivers.. found two days cruises on the Willamette and another on the Columbia.
I would dearly love to go on a cruise where you are on the boat over night. Does anyone know the closest to the Seattle area?
When I livve for a year in Fairbanks, they had a strange little "theme park" called Alaskaland.. I don't even know if it is there any more.. this was 1974. There was a steamboat there, in water but I am sure it was not afloat.. they used it aas a restaurant. Does anyone know if that was an actual boat or just a building made to look like one?
Thanks!
Nan
04/11/2011 9:36 pm
ACL has 7nigt cruises on the Empress of t North departing Portland Oregon and Clarkson Wa
American Cruise Line
04/11/2011 9:37 pm
Sorry wrong boat it's Queen of the West
04/11/2011 10:12 pm
Alaskaland sternwheeler
"Alaskaland" is now called Pioneer Park. The boat is the "S.S. Nenana". It worked the Alaskan rivers from 1933-1952. It is mounted on a support and surrounded by water.
From the alaskaland site:
Alaskaland Park in Fairbanks, Alaska
Nice history from the National Park Service:
Nenana National Historic Landmark Nomination
A video walk-thru on Youtube:
8/30/08 SS Nenana Walk-through - YouTube
05/11/2011 4:03 pm
Sally Harris;27968 wrote: Sorry wrong boat it's Queen of the West
Saw your correction just before I was about to jump in there, Sally. As former crew on the EON, you never, ever, mentioned the QOW in the same breath as the EON. :O)