List of state, US, and interstate highways in Alaska
Alaska Routes , state highways in Alaska , have numbers and names. The number assignment from 1 to 11 and 98 did not take place according to any fixed scheme. The Klondike Highway , built in 1978, was only given a number in 1998 on the 100th anniversary of the Klondike River gold rush . Several highways that are longer than the Klondike Highway have not been numbered.
Highways 7 and 10 consist of disjointed sections. The numbers can refer to several differently named highways. For example, Alaska Route 1 consists of the Glenn Highway , Seward Highway , Sterling Highway and Tok Cut-Off . Individual highways also have multiple numbers. The Seward Highway is part of Alaska Routes 1 and 9 as well as Interstate A3.
Alaska Routes and their course
Alaska Route 1 : | Homer on the Kenai Peninsula - ( Sterling Highway / Seward Highway ) - Anchorage - ( Glenn Highway ) - Glennallen - ( Tok Cut-Off ) - Tok . | |
Alaska Route 2 : | Yukon border - ( Alaska Highway ) - ( Richardson Highway ) - Fairbanks - ( Elliott Highway ) - Manley Hot Springs on the Tanana River . | |
Alaska Route 3 : | Northeast of Anchorage on Glenn Highway - ( George Parks Highway ) - Fairbanks 576 km. | |
Alaska Route 4 : | Valdez - Richardson Highway - Big Delta on the Alaska Highway | |
Alaska Route 5 : | Tetlin on Alaska Highway - ( Taylor Highway ) - Eagle , 260 km. | |
Alaska Route 6 : | Fairbanks - ( Steese Highway ) - Circle on the Yukon, 260 km, of which 189 km are not paved, built in 1927 | |
Alaska Route 7 : | Yukon Border - ( Haines Highway , Juneau Veterans Memorial Highway, Tongass Highway) - Haines, 42 km (incoherent with sections in Juneau , Petersburg and Ketchikan ). | |
Alaska Route 8 : | Denali Highway | |
Alaska Route 9 : | Moose Pass on Sterling Highway - ( Seward Highway ) - Seward on the south coast. | |
Alaska Route 10 : | Two unconnected stretches of road: Edgerton Highway and Copper River Highway . | |
Alaska Route 11 : | North of Fairbanks - ( Dalton Highway ) - Prudhoe Bay , 666 km, built 1974. | |
Alaska Route 98 : | Skagway - ( Klondike Highway ) - border - Dawson in Yukon , Canada , 15 miles on Alaska Territory. |
Interstate highways and their route
There are four interstate highways in Alaska , the US counterpart to the European highways, although there is only a connection to the other US states via the Alaska Marine Highway or via Canadian highways. The streets are named A1 to A4 and are financed in a similar way to the interstate highways in the " lower 48 ". However, they are not marked as such and only exist on an organizational level. The federal government assigned these routes their status in order to have a legal basis for their financing.
The Interstate Highways in Alaska consist of sections of the Alaska Routes and only in rare cases meet the usual requirements. The majority consists of two-lane, rural highways without specially designed motorway entrances.
Interstate A1: | Glenn Highway - Richardson Highway between Glenn Highway and Tok Cut-Off - Tok Cut-Off - Alaska Highway between Tok and the Canadian border, 657 km. | |
Interstate A2: | Alaska Highway between Tok and Delta Junction - Richardson Highway between Delta Junction and Fairbanks , 325 km. | |
Interstate A3: | Seward Highway between Anchorage and Tern Lake - Sterling Highway between Tern Lake and Soldotna , 150 miles. | |
Interstate A4: | George Parks Highway from Palmer to Fairbanks, 321 miles. |
Web links
Alaska Road Map at milebymile.com (Engl.)