Alaska Dispatch News

OPINION: Should we blow up the ‘Magic Bus’?

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 Krakauer’s ...
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Into the Wild Magic Bus Removed From Alaska Park to Keep Tourists Safe

The iconic Fairbanks City Transit System Bus number 142, made famous by the book Into the Wild and also known as the Magic Bus, is no longer where it used to be. The Army National Guard sent two ...
Outside

The ’Into the Wild’ Bus Is Gone… for Now

This article was first published by Backpacker.com. To get more of their premium content along with your Outside subscription, join Outside+. When a National Guard Chinook helicopter airlifted the ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Bus 142 finds its final resting place

In a cavernous room within the university’s new engineering building, a bus squats on four flat tires. In this place, the 1946 International Harvester model K-5 looks small, for maybe the first time ...
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Explaining the Virginia connection to this famous 'Magic Bus', now on display in Alaska

WASHINGTON (7News) — An abandoned city bus that once lured people on sometimes deadly pilgrimages to Alaska’s backcountry can now safely be viewed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks while it ...
Popular Science

The tragic legacy behind the famous ‘Into the Wild’ bus

This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Earlier this month, the Alaska National Guard used a Chinook helicopter to lift and carry out “The Bus.” If you’re not familiar, this is the bus that ...
Outdoor Life

Long Before the ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Became a Tourist Deathtrap, It Was My Dad’s Hunting Camp

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 ...
People

Alaska National Guard Airlifts Iconic Into the Wild Bus from Where It Sat for Decades

The bus was removed out of concern for public safety, officials said Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously ...
Outside

The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can It Hold Up in a Museum?

On June 18, 2020, Carine McCandless got a call from Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources. Corri Feige, the commissioner at the time, wanted to give her a heads-up: the abandoned bus where Carine’s ...
PBS

‘Into the Wild’ bus likely lands a home at Fairbanks museum

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 making dangerous, sometimes deadly treks to ...
The Denver Post

Alaska moves infamous “Into the Wild” bus to deter deadly trek into backcountry

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 making dangerous, sometimes deadly treks to ...