Steese Highway

The Steese Highway is a major road in the U.S. state of Alaska, which connects to a length of 261 km Fairbanks in the Interior with Circle on the Yukon, 80 km south of the Arctic Circle. The highway was completed in 1927 and by James G. Steese, a former general of the U.S. Army and Chairman of the Alaska Road Commission, named. Original Highway was built to establish a supply route in the Circle Mining District, in which in the 1890s was the center of Alaska's gold mining to the discovery of gold on the Klondike.

The first 71 km from Fairbanks are paved, after which the road becomes a gravel road. The highway runs through the White Mountains, a mountain range of the Tanana Hills. The southwestern part of the highway runs along the Chatanika River. About halfway is the headwaters of Birch Creek, a Wild and Scenic River, which flows into the Yukon. He reached the highest point at Eagle Summit ( 1105 m). The recreation area White Mountains National Recreation Area is accessible via the highway.

The Steese Highway is on the first 17 miles from Fairbanks to the junction with the Elliott Highway at Fox part of Alaska Route 2, the remaining distance to Circle the Alaska Route 6