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The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
The highway is paved and in generally good condition year-round between Fairbanks and the junction with the Dalton Highway, but reverts to an unpaved road for the final 80 miles (130 km) to Manley Hot Springs. This portion of the road, particularly in winter, can be very challenging to navigate due to overflow of ice and water on the road, high ...
The Dalton Highway connects the mainland via Fairbanks with the ... 323,977 km worth of roads. Of these, 96,221 km are paved (this is including 6,335 km of ...
The Dalton Highway in Alaska was built in 1974 to allow construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. It runs 400 miles (640 km) from near Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean. Rather than relieving congestion, the highway was built to allow access to the previously-inaccessible Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. Until 1995, permits were ...
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The unnumbered road east of Waverly was paved in the 1930s. [6] The PA 707 designation between Dalton and Waverly was decommissioned in the 1940s. [7] PA 632 was created in April 1961 as part of a mass designation of state routes in Lackawanna County that created five new state highways to interchange with I-81 (the Penn-Can Highway).
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Atigun Pass, Dalton Highway Atigun Pass (/ ˈ æ t ɪ ɡ ə n / AT-i-gən [1]), elevation 4,739 feet (1,444 m), is a high mountain pass across the Brooks Range in Alaska, located at the head of the Dietrich River.