Coldfoot, Alaska

Unorganized Borough

02-16630

Coldfoot is a place in Alaska and is located on the Dalton Highway, and has been in its present form by Dick Mackey, a former winner of the Iditarod, was founded. Mackey sold here from a converted school bus fast food. With the help of truck drivers who commuted on the Highway between Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay, was the current service station with restaurant and accommodation options.

Originally Coldfoot was a mining settlement named Slate Creek. Its present name from the place of prospectors who received and returns made ​​in 1900 cold in the Koyukuk River feet (cold feet). 1902 was Coldfoot of two roadhouses, two stores, seven saloons and a game room. A post office was in operation from 1902 to 1912 and was reopened in 1984.

The airport of Coldfoot is located west of the Dalton Highway and consists of a 1,220 m long runway.