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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 .
When an ice road is part of a winter road, as is commonly the case, its design and construction is comprised within the overall road planning, i.e. in conjunction with the over-land segments. [2] Either way, factors that need to be addressed before construction include the following:
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.
Carlile made their first appearance on The History Channel in a July 2006 documentary called Alaska: Dangerous Territory. [6] When they returned to History in the television series Ice Road Truckers in 2009, they were hauling approximately 30% of all loads bound for Prudhoe Bay. Carlile would be one of the featured companies of the series from ...
Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane.
Atigun Pass (/ ˈ æ t ɪ ɡ ə n / AT-i-gən [1]), elevation 4,739 feet (1,444 m), is a high mountain pass across the Brooks Range in Alaska, located at the head of the Dietrich River. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is where the Dalton Highway crosses the Continental Divide (at mile marker 244), and is the highest pass in Alaska that is maintained throughout ...
Northstar Island is a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) artificial island in the Beaufort Sea, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the Alaska coast. [1] The island was created to develop the Northstar Oil Pool , which is located approximately 12,500 feet (3,800 m) below the seabed.
Near Manley Hot Springs there is a 50-mile side road to Tanana over Tofty. This road was built 2014-2016 for a cost of $13 million. [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.