Jalopnik

Here's How Museum Workers Took The 'Into The Wild' Bus Out Of The Wild

What's the most famous vehicle you can see in America? Is it the first Mustang Convertible that you'll find on display at the Henry Ford Museum, or perhaps it's the stacks of rusting Americana that ...
Outside

Into the McCandless Bus

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 ...
CNN

New home in the works for the ‘Into the Wild’ bus in Alaska

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 ...
Outside

The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Has Another Story to Tell

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 ...
CNN

The tragic allure of Alaska’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus

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 ...
Alaska Public Media

The ‘Into the Wild’ bus exhibit is still under wraps as museum searches for funding

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 ...