Taylor Highway

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Alaska Route 5

The Taylor Highway is a road in Alaska ( Alaska Route 5 ) that connects Tetlin Junction on the Alaska Highway with the small town of Eagle on the Yukon River for a length of 259 km .

The highway was built in 1953 to provide access to Chicken , Eagle, and the historic Fortymile Mining District, as well as a connection to Dawson . The first 100 km are paved, then the highway becomes a gravel road. It winds through hilly, densely forested, largely deserted landscape to the north and ends at the Yukon. The road is closed to motor vehicles from October to April; only snowmobiles are allowed to use it.

course

Asphalted part of the Taylor Highway
Gravel road in the further course
  • 0 km: The highway begins in Tetlin Junction.
  • 7 km: Junction to Four Mile Lake .
  • 9.5 km: Start of the Tanana Valley State Forrest .
  • 19.5 km: End of the Tanana Valley State Forrest .
  • 35 miles: Start of the Fortymile Mining District .
  • 69 km: Wooden bridge over Cabin Creek .
  • 81 km: Bridge over Taylor Creek .
  • 103 km: Bridge over the Fortymile River (origin of this name is the distance of the river from Fort Reliance , an old trading post at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers ).
  • 106 km: Chicken , a small place with about 40 inhabitants, which should originally have been called Ptarmigan ( ptarmigan ), but got its simpler name due to the spelling weakness of the miners who settled there. The writer Ann Purdy lived here.
  • 107 km: Turn off Airport Road to the Chicken runway.
  • 108 km: Bridge over Chicken Creek .
  • 121 km: Bridge over the South Fork River .
  • 132 km: Bridge over the Walker Fork River .
  • 145 km: Jack Wade , a mining community.
  • 154 km: Jack Wade Junction junction , junction to the Top of the World Highway to the Canadian border and to Dawson.
  • 182 km: Bridge over the Fortymile River .
  • 183 km: Bridge over O'Brien Creek .
  • 189 km: Bridge over Alder Creek .
  • 202 km: Bridge over Columbia Creek .
  • 213 km: Bridge over King Solomon Creek .
  • 220 km: Bridge over North Fork Solomon Creek .
  • 150 miles: Bridge over the Discovery Fork River .
  • 150 miles: Two bridges over American Creek .
  • 259 km: Eagle , end of the Taylor Highway. A place with about 200 inhabitants that was founded by the US Army in 1899.

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