The rusting exterior of Fairbanks City Transit System Bus 142, an abandoned 1946 International Harvester K-5 parked along Alaska's Stampede Trail. The bus began receiving international attention after ...

The abandoned vehicle where Chris McCandless died teaches us a lot about modern Alaska. Ever since Outside published Jon Krakauer’s feature about the young, adventurous drifter who attempted to live ...

Until recently, the iconic green and white-roofed 1940s-era International Harvester sat parked in a woodsy clearing beside a riverbank, moldering in a remote patch of Alaskan outback like the result ...

STEPPING INTO THE BUS for the first time is a powerful experience. That’s not because I’m on a spiritual journey, or feeling the aura left by a man who slowly starved to death inside it. Yes, I’d read ...

The bus that played a key role in the gripping adventure and tragic death chronicled in “Into the Wild” is likely to begin its next chapter at a museum in Fairbanks, Alaska. Bus 142, a distinctive ...

Bus 142 is shown with a UH 60 Blackhawk helicopter that supported the Alaska Army National Guard operation that transported the bus from the Stampede Trail to an interim staging point on the Stampede ...

University of Alaska Museum of the North curator Angela Linn removes a tarp from Bus 142 at a storage facility in central Fairbanks on Oct 20, 2025 as visitor Jared White looks on. On a chilly October ...

(CNN) — A 24-year-old woman from Belarus died on Alaska’s Stampede Trail while attempting to visit an abandoned bus made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild.” Veramika Maikamava and her husband ...

To the editor: I am writing in response to the Community Perspective written by Michael E Bemis. Mr. Bemis’s obsession with Bus 142 and his exaggerated statements about The Denali Borough and the ...

Bus 142 from ‘Into the Wild’ finds a home at Fairbanks museum An infamous bus appears headed to a new home at a museum in Fairbanks after being removed from Alaska’s backcountry to deter people from ...