The Into the Wild bus, made famous by the real-life and ill-fated wilderness adventures of Chris McCandless, will now call a museum in Fairbanks home.
The abandoned bus where Chris McCandless spent the last months of his life, as recounted in the 1996 novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and in a movie adaption of the same name in 2007, was located on the side of the Teklanika River in Alaska since the early 1960s. In June 2020, the bus was airlifted from the site to prevent fans from trying to hike to it — the trek to reach it was treacherous, requiring hikers to ford rivers, and several have died en route.