Flowers for Fairbanks, AK

Fairbanks calls itself the Golden Heart City, and the name fits a place that anchors everything north of the Alaska Range — a gold-rush town grown up on the Chena River in the Tanana Valley, where summer brings a sun that barely sets and winter drops to forty below with the aurora overhead. Delivery in the Interior is a different animal from the coast. The road grid is wide and low-slung: downtown along the Chena and Cushman Street, the college hill where the University of Alaska Fairbanks looks over the valley, Fort Wainwright on the east edge, and the long Richardson Highway run out to North Pole. The real variable is not miles but temperature — a January afternoon at minus-forty means a bouquet cannot sit on a step for even a few minutes, so routes are timed and stems ride warm. Every flower in a Fairbanks cooler has already made the coldest, longest haul of any city we serve, up the Parks Highway or in through Fairbanks International.

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