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The Interstate Highways in Alaska are all owned and maintained by the US state of Alaska. [2] The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is responsible for the maintenance and operations of the Interstate Highways. The Interstate Highway System in Alaska comprises four highways that cover 1,082.22 miles (1,741.66 km).
Inuvik's Our Lady of Victory Church, often called Igloo Church, is a famous landmark in the region. It is the most-photographed building in the town [citation needed]. Inuvik has the Midnight Sun Mosque, North America's northernmost, which opened in November 2010 after being built in Winnipeg and moved 4,000 km (2,500 mi) by truck and barge. [51]
The road begins at the end of the Dempster Highway in Inuvik, Northwest Territories and continues for 138 km (86 mi) north towards Tuktoyaktuk, a coastal community on the Arctic Ocean. The ITH includes eight bridges, and is a two-lane gravel road for its entirety. [16] On April 29, 2017, the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk ice road closed for the last time.
Between 1920 and 1923, WIS 100 was designated via parts of modern-day WIS 138 and US 51. [3] [4] The entirety was replaced by a new alignment of WIS 10.[5] [6]The current alignment of WIS 100 was initially a county-constructed concrete loop highway known as County Trunk Highway L. [7]
The Milepost is packaged and distributed like a book (2008 edition: ISBN 978-189215431-6), but like the Yellow Pages it includes paid advertising. [2] The original 1949 edition was a mere 72 pages, by 2014 it had expanded to 752 pages, detailing every place a traveler might eat, sleep, or just pull off the road for a moment on all of the highways of northwestern North America.
If you are caught driving without the requisite insurance under Alaska’s mandatory requirements, you may be subject to a $500 fine. For a first offense, your driver’s license may be suspended ...
A History channel blog announced that the second season of Ice Road Truckers would be based out of Inuvik. A CBC North story reported that the episodes of this season occur on the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. Four of the featured drivers from the first season took part: Alex Debogorski, Hugh Rowland, Drew Sherwood, and Rick Yemm.
The county treasurer acts as a banker of sorts, administering all county-related monies, investing funds not for daily operations, as well as collecting delinquent real estate taxes. Whoever is ...