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Sterling Highway at mile 170 (km 274), descending a long, steep hill (locally known as "Baycrest Hill") towards Homer. The Sterling Highway is a 138-mile-long (222 km) state highway in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Alaska, leading from the Seward Highway at Tern Lake Junction, 90 miles (140 km) south of Anchorage, to Homer.
The Interstate Highways in Alaska are all owned and maintained by the US state of Alaska. [2] The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is responsible for the maintenance and operations of the Interstate Highways. The Interstate Highway System in Alaska comprises four highways that cover 1,082.22 miles (1,741.66 km).
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.
Seward Highway: Seward: Anchorage: 127 204 Alaska Route 1: Passes directly through the scenic Chugach National Forest, also an All-American Road and a National Forest Scenic Byway Steese Highway: Fox: Circle: 151 243 Alaska Route 2, Alaska Route 6: Sterling Highway: Seward Highway: Skilak Lake: 39 63 Alaska Route 1: Northern segment Sterling ...
Alaska Routes are both numbered and named. There have been only twelve state highway numbers issued (1 through 11 and 98), and the numbering often has no obvious pattern. For example, Alaska Route 4 (AK-4) runs north and south, whereas AK-2 runs largely east and west, but runs north and south passing through and to the north of Fairban
Nov. 9—Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 24 Nuna Sheldon-Cook walks along Fourth Avenue during a snowfall on November 9, 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) More than a foot of snow — in some areas more than 2 ...
The highway is maintained by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (Alaska DOT&PF), and the A-1 designation is not signed along the highway. [7] In 2010, 2,520 vehicles used the highway near the junction with Sterling Highway in a measure of the annual average daily traffic , the lowest tally along the highway.
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