Our hotel was approximately 25 minutes away from this place....and we weren't leaving Alaska without seeing Santa Claus! The biggest attraction is a gift shop named the Santa Claus House, the modern-day incarnation of a trading post established in the town's early days. The Santa Claus House is known for the world's largest fiberglass statue of Santa Claus outside.
Prior to Christmas each year, the USPS post office in North Pole receives hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa Claus, and thousands more from people wanting the town's postmark on their Christmas greeting cards to their families. It advertises the ZIP code 99705 as the ZIP code of Santa.
Christmas-themed streets in North Pole include Santa Claus Lane, St. Nicholas Drive, Snowman Lane, and Kris Kringle Drive. Street lights in the city are decorated in a candy cane motif, and many local businesses have similar decorations. The city's firetrucks and ambulances are all red, while the police cars are green and white.
Check out Rudolph!
Merry Christmas, everyone! No snow here....but we can now say that we've been to the North Pole! Ho! Ho! Ho!
P.S. Unfortunately, we saw a lot of your names on Santa's Naughty List....but we put in a good word for you! Good luck this Christmas!
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