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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 .
Dalton Road Georgina Road is a suffixed route that runs east-west and defaults from Woodbine Avenue (RR #8), (with a turn required for traffic to continue along Woodbine). The road is also secretly designated as number #88. [7] Road name derived from early road surveying commonly used in the 19th and early 20th Centuries in Ontario.
[2] [3] The road ends on the south side of the Yukon River, so a boat trip or an ice road is also needed to reach Tanana. [3] [4] [5] Minto is also served by a side road off the main highway called the Minto Road. The Dalton Highway begins 73 miles (118 km) north of Fox at its junction with the Elliott Highway.
James W. Dalton (January 30, 1913 – May 8, 1977) was an American engineer who was instrumental in the prospecting of the gas and oil fields in Alaska North Slope. Life and activities [ edit ]
The route, formerly known as the Dalton Trail, had been used for centuries by the indigenous people of the region and was heavily used during the Klondike Gold Rush. Dalton Cache was an inn and trading post at the border. In 2009, Haines Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway. [1] [2] Original Dalton Cache Building
The Yukon River Bridge, officially known as the E. L. Patton Bridge, is a girder bridge spanning the Yukon River in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States.The bridge carries both the Dalton Highway and the Alaska Pipeline in connecting Fairbanks with Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.
Pyramid Harbor, at the head of the Dalton Trail Dogsled team and cow hauling supplies near tent encampment on the Dalton Trail, ca. 1900. The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km (246 mi) long.
Ambler Road is the common name of the "Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project", a proposed industrial haul road that would connect the Dalton Highway to the area around the Ambler Mining District, allowing for future mining projects in the area. The project is being managed by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority ...