Chena Bend Golf Course

Chena Bend Golf Course in Fairbanks occupies terrain in the Chena River valley in Interior Alaska, a course that operates under the most extreme climate conditions of any golf facility in the United States. The Interior Alaska climate swings from summer highs above 90°F—with virtually twenty-four hours of daylight near the solstice—to winter temperatures that routinely reach -40°F and below. Golf here is a summer phenomenon, concentrated in the few months when the permafrost is not frozen and the landscape is transformed by the continuous daylight that makes Fairbanks's summer one of the most unusual places in the world to play the game.