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Lynn Canal, showing a few of the numerous avalanche chutes along the proposed route. The Lynn Canal Highway, or Juneau Access Road, is a proposed road between Skagway and City and Borough of Juneau, the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska. Such a road, if built, would still require ferry access to connect Juneau to the Alaskan highway network.
Lynn Canal's location as a penetrating waterway into the interior connects Skagway and Haines, Alaska, to Juneau and the rest of the Inside Passage thus making it a major route for shipping, cruise ships, and ferries. During the Klondike Gold Rush it was a major route to the boom towns of Skagway and Dyea and
Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships , freighters , tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway , BC Ferries , and Washington State Ferries ...
In 2019 the Alaska Marine Highway System replaced Fairweather with MV Tazlina on the Juneau-Skagway-Haines route. While Tazlina requires twice as long to complete the round-trip as Fairweather , she can carry 53 cars instead of 31, and the state expects to save $400,000 per year in fuel costs. [ 34 ]
As a mainline ferry, which means she serves the largest of the inside passage communities (such as Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, and Sitka), her route spans the entirety of the inside passage, often beginning runs in Bellingham, Washington and running to the northernmost Alaskan Panhandle community of Skagway ...
Tongass Highway, Mitkof Highway, Glacier Highway, Egan Drive, Haines Highway — — Segments in Juneau, Petersburg, and Ketchikan, connected by the Marine Highway: AK-8: 135: 217 AK-3 (George Parks Highway) in Cantwell: AK-4 (Richardson Highway) in Paxson: Denali Highway — — AK-9: 36.49: 58.72 Railway Avenue in Seward: AK-1 (Sterling ...
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Egan Drive which is part of AK-7, is the main road in Juneau, replacing the Glacier Highway from downtown Juneau to near the Juneau International Airport. Beyond the airport, AK-7 continues along the Glacier Highway past Auke Bay to its northernmost point near Berners Bay. The extreme southern end of Egan Drive is known as Marine Way. The ferry ...