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Also called the Bob Blodgett Highway Palmer–Wasilla Highway — — Palmer: Wasilla — — Portage Glacier Highway: 11.59: 18.65 AK-1 (Seward Highway) in Portage: Marine Highway in Whittier: 2000: current Salmon River Road: 11.710: 18.845 Wharf near Canada–United States border in Hyder, Alaska: Canada–United States border near Premier ...
Alaska Route 1 (AK-1) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska.It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage.It is one of two routes in Alaska to contain significant portions of freeway: the Seward Highway in south Anchorage and the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer.
The George Parks Highway (numbered Interstate A-4 and signed Alaska Route 3), usually called simply the Parks Highway, runs 323 miles (520 km) from the Glenn Highway 35 miles (56 km) north of Anchorage to Fairbanks in the Alaska Interior. The highway, originally known as the Anchorage-Fairbanks Highway, was completed in 1971, and given its ...
The $2 million remodel to their Palmer-Wasilla Highway facility will combine a pair of bright yellow buildings into a single, 10,000-square-foot space with a multiuse room specifically designed to ...
It is named after Robert Hatcher, a prospector and miner. The nearest cities are Palmer and Wasilla approximately 12 miles (19 km) to the south, and Willow approximately 26 mi (42 km) to the west. The communities are at an elevation of approximately 250 ft (76 m) in the Mat-Su valley.
Wasilla was at the end of the Palmer-Wasilla highway and the road to Big Lake provided access to land west of Wasilla. The Parks Highway put Wasilla at mile 40–42 of what became the major highway and railroad transportation corridor linking Southcentral Alaska to Interior Alaska. As a result, population growth and community development ...
It was playtime for three orphaned black bears at the Miller Zoo in Quebec, Canada on Wednesday, April 17th! A zookeeper passing by noticed the bears hanging out in a tree and recorded a video of ...
The Palmer Road, now the Old Glenn Highway, was built through the area to Palmer in 1942. A lodge on Goat Creek was popular with travelers. The Eklutna Power Project was also built in the 1940s, including tract housing for employees. Knik River Road started as a logging road in the early 1950s; a gravel road was built in the late 1960s.