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The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
An east facing photo of the roadhouse with the new lodge visible in the background. The Black Rapids Roadhouse, also known as the Rapids Roadhouse and the Rapids Hunting Lodge, is a historic Alaskan structure along the Richardson Highway in east-central Alaska.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...
The new road would be 47.9 miles long, built at an estimated cost of $574 million, [1] and be a part of Alaska Route 7. The plan of the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) called for extending "The Road" northward from Juneau to a ferry terminal 18 miles south of Skagway . [ 2 ]
Ambler Road is the common name of the "Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project", a proposed industrial haul road that would connect the Dalton Highway to the area around the Ambler Mining District, allowing for future mining projects in the area. The project is being managed by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority ...
The seal population had significantly recovered by the 1920s, and was around 1.5 million in 1952. The Convention expired in 1985, bringing an effective end to the seal hunting industry. The area is now part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, and the herd is generally subject only to subsistence hunting by the native Aleut ...
Following the construction of the Alaska Railroad in 1923, Alaska residents pushed for road access to Denali National Park in the early 1930s. [3] Around the same time, a dirt road was being built between Cantwell to supply the mining settlement at Valdez Creek known then as Denali. [4] Little else was achieved before the onset of World War II. [3]