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Girdwood is a resort town within the southern extent of the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located near the end of the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet , Girdwood lies in a valley in the southwestern Chugach Mountains , surrounded by seven glaciers feeding into a number of creeks, which either converge within the valley or ...
In 2017, Alaska DOT&PF announced a four-year Milepost 75–90 Rehabilitation Project, [16] [17] scheduled to begin in 2018, to make major safety improvements to a busy crash-prone section of the Seward Highway from Girdwood to beyond the Portage curve toward Turnagain Pass ending at Ingram Creek. In July 2015 a tour bus crash at milepost 79 ...
Turnagain Arm communities within the Municipality of Anchorage include Indian, Bird, and Girdwood, all along the north shore of the Arm. Portage, at the eastern tip or head of the Arm, is a former settlement destroyed in the 1964 Alaska earthquake. [5]
Portage Glacier is located adjacent to Turnagain Arm, 50 miles southeast of downtown Anchorage.Road access is via the Seward Highway to the former town of Portage, which was flooded and subsequently vacated following the 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts; Alaska Mission Operations Center; Alaska Native Medical Center; Alaska Pacific University; Anchorage Depot; Alaska Regional Hospital; Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center; Alaska Zoo; Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall; Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center; Anchorage Alaska Temple; Angelus Memorial Park; Anton ...
The Portage Glacier Highway, or Portage Glacier Road, is a highway located in the U.S. state of Alaska.The highway is made up of a series of roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the Portage Glacier area of the Chugach National Forest and the city of Whittier to the Seward Highway.
Name Image Built Listed Location Borough Type Alaska Central Railroad Tunnel No. 1: 1906, 1916 1977-11-28 Seward: Kenai Peninsula: Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel
This is a route-map template for Rail transport in Alaska, an Alaska railway network.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.