Ken's Journal The Alaska Highway, Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, AK (1422 Miles) |
| So. Now after the bus trip back to Whitehorse, it was back on the Alaska Highway to Alaska. |
On the first day after Whitehorse, this is the view as you approach Kluane Lake, one of the largest lakes in NA. |
Another shot of Kluane Lake. The color of the water is from the presence of Suspended particles called Glacier Flour, which reflects blue light waves. Kluane is 478 square kilometers large and drains through the Yukon river to the Bering Sea. |
Just outside Delta Junction, the gift shop for Rika's Roadhouse, a restored 1910 roadhouse serving those on the gold rush trail from Valdez to Fairbanks. Rika's Roadhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places. |
More interesting, one of the major river crossings of the Alaska Pipeline - this being across the Tanana River just north of Delta Junction. |
And here -- ta da -- the end of the Alaska Highway !!! Sorta. Fairbanks will argue that they are the official end of the Alaska Highway, not Delta Junction. The original charter was to build a road from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks. There already existed a road from Valdez to Fairbanks, the Richardson. When the Alaska Highway was built, it met the Richardson Highway at Delta Junction - completing the route to Fairbanks. Essentially, the highway from Delta Junction to Fairbanks already existed, so the construction of the Alaska Highway ended at Delta Junction. I agree with the Delta Junctionians - the "Alaska Highway" ends here. |
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