One bestselling book and blockbuster movie (both titled “Into the Wild”) later, Fairbanks City Transit System No. 142 became perhaps the most famous bus of all time. Now, the snub-nosed hulk ...

Bus 142, better known as the “Magic Bus” or “Into the Wild” bus, was where hiker Christopher McCandless died.Credit: UAF/Amy Chaussé I’m at the University of Alaska Museum of the North ...

In 2020, a helicopter lifted Fairbanks City Transit Bus No. 142 out of the bush and it was brought about 100 miles back here to Fairbanks. For nearly 30 years, the now-infamous bus had been a magnet ...

For many, it was Bus 142. Why this random bus that's rusting away in the Alaskan wilderness, I hear you ask? Well, it's the ancient International Harvester bus that Christopher McCandless called ...

A recent opinion essay offered wide-ranging criticism of the University of Alaska Museum of the North for creating an exhibit for Bus 142 — made famous by Christopher McCandless and John ...

Peter: The bus. The hikers were trying to cross the river to get to Bus 142. The Chris McCandless bus. The “Into the Wild” bus. Chris McCandless was a 24-year-old adventurer who hitchhiked and ...

Fairbanks Transit System Bus 142 arrives at the Troth Yeddha' campus Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at the Engineering, Learning and Innovation Facility's high bay structural testing lab. (UAF photo ...