Glenn Highway
The Glenn Highway (part of Alaska Route 1 ) is a 301 km long highway in Alaska that connects Anchorage with Glennallen. Together with the Tok Cut-Off (from Glennallen to Tok ), which is often attributed to the Glenn Highway, the total length is 528 km.
The highway's origins date back to the 1930s when Palmer Road connected Anchorage to Palmer . During World War II, the Alaska Road Commission completed the road to Glennallen, connecting Anchorage to the continental highway system.
The highway runs in the wide valley between the Talkeetna Mountains and the Chugach Mountains , for the first almost 50 km along the Knik Arm , a bay of Cook Inlet , and then up to 170 km parallel to the Matanuska River .
The name of the highway comes from Edwin F. Glenn , a pioneer in the US Army who looked for an inner-Alaskan route, the Valdez Trail , to the gold fields during the Klondike gold rush .
course
- 0 km: The highway begins in Anchorage
- 12 km: Fort Richardson
- 22 km: Eagle River , a small town that emerged on the highway in the Anchorage catchment area after World War II
- 34 km: Chugiak
- 42 km: Eklutna , Athabasca Indian village with 25 inhabitants
- 50 km: three bridges over the Knik River Delta
- 51 km: Bridge over the Matanuska River
- 57 km: Intersection with George Parks Highway
- 68 km: Palmer , a town with 3000 inhabitants, in 1916 as a station on the Alaska Railroad established
- 80 km: junction with Hatcher Pass Road
- 81 km: The only musk ox farm in the world
- 98 km: Sutton , town with 340 inhabitants, founded in 1918 as a coal mining settlement
- 123 km: Chickaloon , village with 150 inhabitants
- 137 km: Long Lake , narrow canyon below the highway
- 164 km: Matanuska Glacier
- 196 km: Tahneta Pass (914 m)
- 208 km: Eureka Summit (1,013 m)
- 251 km: Tazlina glacier
- 267 km: Tolsona Mountain
- 301 km: Glennallen , place with 900 inhabitants on the western edge of Wrangell-St.-Elias National Park , end point of the highway and junction with the Richardson Highway
Web links
- During the Glenn Highway on Bell's Travel Guide (English).
- Glenn Highway National Scenic Byway (Engl.)
- Photos from the Glenn Highway
