Seward Highway

Seward Highway
Data
Location:	Seward - Anchorage , Alaska , USA
Length:	202 km (125 miles)
Construction time:	1923 - October 9, 1951, 1952
Cities and places on the highway:	Seward Moose Pass Portage Girdwood Anchorage

The Seward Highway is a road in the US state of Alaska that stretches for 201 kilometers (125 miles) between Seward and Anchorage . It was completed in 1951 and runs across the Kenai Peninsula , through the Chugach National Forest , the Cook Inlet and the Kenai Mountains . The Seward Highway is marked as Alaska Route 9 for the first 37 mi (60 km) to the Sterling Highway . The rest of the way to Anchorage, it is known as Alaska Route 1 . At the junction with Sterling Highway, Alaska Route 1 turns west towards Sterling and Homer . Approximately 8 mi (13 km) of the highway is within the Anchorage city limits, where it is developed as a freeway . In Anchorage, the highway ends at the intersection with 5th Avenue.

The first section of Steward Highway was completed in 1923; the construction of the entire road was completed on October 9, 1951. In 1952 the whole route was paved . In 1989 the highway was designated a scenic byway by the United States Forest Service .

Route

Locality	mile	kilometre	Crossing with
Seward	0	0	Railway Avenue
Bear Creek	4th	6th	Herman Leirer Road
Primrose	17th	27	Primrose Lane Road
Moose Pass	36-37	59-60	Alaska Route 1 Alaska Route 9
	56	90	Hope Highway
Portage glacier	78	126	Portage Glacier Highway
Anchorage	125	202	East 20th Avenue

gallery

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  The highway between the Chugach Mountains and Turnagain Arm , with the Kenai Mountains in the background

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  Overview of Seward and the surrounding area, including Bear Creek . The southern end of the highway runs through the center of the picture

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  Seward Highway in the Chugach National Forest

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  Winter view of the highway at kilometer 156 (mile 97), looking north, the Chugach Mountains in the background , the tracks of the Alaska Railroad to the left of the road

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  Overview of the highway. In the background you can see the Cook Inlet and the Kenai Mountains

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  Not far from Bird Point

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  Summit Lake

Web links

Commons : Seward Highway  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• America's Byways - Seward Highway (Engl.)
• During the Seward Highway on Bell's Travel Guide (English).
• Description and map of the Seward Highway on alaskana.de (German)