List of Alaska Routes

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Shields for Alaska Routes
Highway names
Interstates Interstate A-n (A-n)
State Alaska Route n (AK-n)
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The Sterling Highway is a typical example of what is considered a highway in Alaska; four lane restricted-access routes are not used outside of the largest cities.

Alaska Routes are both numbered and named. There have been only twelve numbers issued (1 through 11 and 98), and the numbering often has no obvious pattern. For example, Alaska Route 4 runs north and south, whereas Alaska Route 2 runs largely east and west, but runs north and south passing through and to the north of Fairbanks. The Klondike Highway, built in 1978, was unnumbered until 1998, when it was given its designation during the centennial of the Klondike Gold Rush. However, many Alaskan highways of greater length than the Klondike Highway remain unnumbered.

Non-contiguous

Highways 7 and 10 consist of multiple separately named segments that do not physically approach each other, unless the Alaska Marine Highway System ferries as part of Alaska Route 7, and former Copper River and Northwestern Railway track bed as part of Alaska Route 10, are included.

Names versus numbers

The Denali Highway has only 23 miles (37 km) of pavement, the remaining 123 miles (198 km) is gravel. The road is closed in the winter months

Numbers and names do not always coincide well. Alaska Route 1 can refer to any of the Glenn Highway, Seward Highway, Sterling Highway, or Tok Cut-Off; meanwhile, portions of the Seward Highway are numbered Alaska Route 1, 9 and Interstate A3. (Interstate highway shields are not posted along highways in Alaska; these designations occur only on paper.)

Within Alaska, roads are almost invariably referred to by name or general destination, and not by number(s). Many residents are unfamiliar with official highway numbers even for those highways that they use frequently. Visitors are usually advised to avoid using highway numbers in asking for directions.

Mileposts

Mileposts, frequently used for road markers and official addressing in rural areas, are also more commonly reckoned by landmark names.

Highways by number

Number Length (mi) Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Local names Formed Removed Notes
AK-1 545.92878.57 HomerTok Tok Cut-Off, Richardson Highway, Glenn Highway, Seward Highway, Sterling Highway ——
AK-2 456.91735.33 Canada–United States borderManley Hot Springs Alaska Highway, Richardson Highway, Steese Highway, Elliott Highway ——
AK-3 323520 Glenn HighwayFairbanks Parks Highway ——
AK-4 266428 ValdezDelta Junction Richardson Highway ——
AK-5 160257 Tetlin Junction (Alaska Highway east of Tok)Eagle Taylor Highway ——
AK-6 150241 FoxCircle Steese Highway ——
AK-7 150.0241.4 HainesCanada–United States border Haines Highway, Glacier Highway, Egan Drive, Mitkof Highway, Tongass Highway —— Segments in Juneau, Petersburg, and Ketchikan
AK-8 135217 CantwellPaxson Denali Highway ——
AK-9 36.4958.72 SewardTern Lake Junction (Sterling Highway) Seward Highway ——
AK-10 33.553.9 Richardson HighwayChitina Edgerton Highway ——
AK-10 49.579.7 CordovaMillion Dollar Bridge Copper River Highway ——
AK-11 414666 Elliott HighwayDeadhorse Dalton Highway ——
AK-98 28.946.5 SkagwayCanada–United States border Klondike Highway ——

Highways by name

Anchor Point claims the distinction of being the most westerly point on the contiguous highway system in North America.
Alaska Peninsula Highway approaching "downtown" Naknek.
North Tongass Highway passing through a neighborhood of Ketchikan.

Many roads in Alaska are not numbered at all; a few of these are listed below in addition to those above.

NameNumber(s)Route
Alaska HighwayAlaska Route 2, U.S. Route 97Canada–United States border to Delta Junction
Alaska Marine HighwayAMHSSouthEast: Bellingham, Washington to Prince Rupert, British Columbia Canada to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines to Skagway

Cross-Gulf: Ketchikan to Juneau to Yakutat to Whittier
Prince William Sound loop: Valdez to Cordova to Whittier
South-Central loop: Homer to Kodiak to Port Lions
SouthWest: Kodiak to Chignik, Sand Point, King Cove, Cold Bay, False Pass, Akutan to Unalaska
[1][2][3]

Alaska Peninsula HighwaynoneNaknek to King Salmon
Chena Hot Springs RoadnoneOld Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to Chena Hot Springs
Copper River HighwayAlaska Route 10Cordova to north of the Million Dollar Bridge
Dalton HighwayAlaska Route 11Mile 73 (km 118) Elliott Highway (near Livengood) to Deadhorse
Denali HighwayAlaska Route 8Paxson to Cantwell
Denali Park RoadnoneMile 237 (km 382) Parks Highway (in Denali National Park) to Kantishna
Douglas HighwaynoneTraverses the eastern and northern shores of Douglas Island
Edgerton HighwayAlaska Route 10Mile 83 (km 133) Richardson Highway to Chitina
Egan DriveAlaska Route 7Downtown Juneau waterfront to intersection with Glacier Highway near the Brotherhood Bridge
Elliott HighwayAlaska Route 2Fox to Manley Hot Springs
Glenn HighwayAlaska Route 1Anchorage to Glennallen
Haines HighwayAlaska Route 7Haines to Canada–United States border
Hope HighwaynoneMile 57 (km 70) Seward Highway to Hope
Kenai Spur HighwaynoneSoldotna to Captain Cook State Recreation Area near Nikiski
Klondike HighwayAlaska Route 98Skagway to Canada–United States border
McCarthy RoadnoneChitina to near McCarthy
Minnesota Drive ExpresswaynoneSouthern and western Anchorage, bisects Spenard
Johansen ExpresswaynoneNorthern Fairbanks
Mitkof HighwayAlaska Route 7Petersburg to southern Mitkof Island
Nome-Council HighwaynoneNome to Council
Nome-Taylor HighwaynoneNome to Taylor
Nome-Teller HighwaynoneNome to Teller, also called the Bob Blodgett Highway
Palmer-Wasilla HighwaynonePalmer to Wasilla
Parks HighwayAlaska Route 3Mile 35 (km 56) Glenn Highway to Fairbanks
Portage Glacier HighwaynoneSeward Highway to Whittier
Richardson HighwayAlaska Route 2, Alaska Route 4Valdez to Fairbanks
Salmon River RoadnoneCanada–United States border at Stewart, British Columbia through Hyder and the Tongass National Forest, crosses border again at the abandoned town site of Premier, British Columbia, continues on as Granduc Road to the Salmon Glacier summit viewpoint ending at the Granduc Mine.
Seward HighwayAlaska Route 1, Alaska Route 9Seward to Anchorage
Steese HighwayAlaska Route 2, Alaska Route 6Fairbanks to Circle
Sterling HighwayAlaska Route 1Tern Lake Junction (Mile 37 (km 59) Seward Highway, northwest of Moose Pass) to Homer
Taylor HighwayAlaska Route 5Tetlin Junction (Mile 1301 (km 2093) Alaska Highway) to Eagle
Tok Cut-OffAlaska Route 1Gakona Junction (Mile 129 (km 207) Richardson Highway) to Tok
Top of the World HighwaynoneJack Wade Junction (Mile 96 (km 154) Taylor Highway) to Canada–United States border
Tongass HighwayAlaska Route 7Ketchikan north to past Ward Cove and south to past Saxman
Zimovia HighwaynoneWrangell to McCormick Creek Road

List of U.S. Highways in Alaska

At one point, the Alaskan portion of the Alaska Highway was proposed to be designated part of U.S. Highway 97 (US-97), but this was never carried out. Certain prior editions of USGS topographic maps, mostly published during the 1950s, do bear the US-97 highway shield along or near portions of the current AK-2.

Alaska Marine Highway

The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).[4] The Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the FHWA on June 13, 2002;[5] and later declared an All-American Road on September 22, 2005.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "AMHS Routes". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  2. ↑ "AMHS Running Times". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  3. ↑ "AMHS Schedules". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  4. ↑ "Title 23 Section 218 United States Code" (PDF). U.S. Congress.
  5. ↑ "New 2002 National Scenic Byways". Federal Highway Administration.
  6. ↑ "New 2005 All-American Roads". Federal Highway Administration.
  • "Map of Alaska state highways and numbers" (PDF). from the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities
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