Delta Junction, AK - The Alaska Highway

The colors are changing from green to yellows and oranges in Alaska signaling it is time to head south before the snows fly. Below right is our last glimpse of Mt. McKinley.

The pipeline crosses the Tanana River.

How about the size of the mosquitoes here in AK?

Delta Junction -72 deg F in 1975 has been recorded as the low; +9 deg F in 1983. What was that about global warming? Seems plenty cold enough for me....

Some pictures explaining the pipeline and how it is cleaned out with the use of "pigs". Over time these pigs have become very scientific and much smaller and do a great job of keeping that oil flowing from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.

Delta Junction, the northern terminus of the Alcan Highway; constructed during WW II as a military supply route for interior Alaska Military and airfields.

7 Army Regiments, 42 Contractors and Public Road Administrators working from the Delta Junction South and Dawson Creek North completed the road when they met at Soldiers Summit at Kluane Lake Yukon Territory in November 1942. At the peak of construction 77 contractors employed 15,000 men and 11,000 pieces of road building equipment. The total construction cost for 1422 miles was $115,000,000!






Don and I, after leaving Fairbanks where some count the Alaska Highway as ending, we stand at the actual End Of

The Alaska Highway. We
are about to continue
South out of Alaska,
through the beautiful
Yukon, and across the
Providences of Canada
(British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) through
Minnesota and Wisconsin,
Indiana to Michigan.

One last pass by Mile 0 in Dawson Creek, Yukon, the beginning of the Alaska Highway. We did the whole thing...

And so we have come to the conclusion of our Alaska Blog. We hope you enjoyed sharing our trip and that maybe you might be inspired to make the trip to Alaska yourself some day.
Karen and Don