Denali Highway

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Boroughs / Census Areas:

  • Matanuska- Susitna Borough
  • Denali Borough
  • Valdez - Cordova Census Area

The Denali Highway is a road in Alaska (Alaska Route 8 ) that connects to a length of 218 km, the places Paxson on the Richardson Highway and Cantwell on the George Parks Highway.

At the time of construction in 1957 of the Denali Highway, the only road to Denali National Park. It was not until 1971, with the construction of the George Parks Highway, in the section of the Denali Highway from Cantwell has been integrated to the park entrance, there was a second access road.

The road runs along the south slope of the Alaska Range and performs largely untouched, deserted mountain landscape that has been shaped by glaciers. Moraines, Kamen, dead ice and Ose are visible from the street. It crosses in its course the drainage areas of the rivers Copper, Tanana and Susitna.

The first 34 miles from Paxson from are paved, the rest of the highway is gravel. Coming on the first 72 km from the east, the road winds through the Amphitheater Mountains, crossing the Delta River and the Maclaren Summit, the second- highest with 1245 m point of a public road in Alaska after the Atigun pass. After that, the road crosses the Maclaren River and extends to the Susitna River along the southern flank of the Clearwater Mountains. Then they crossed a plain to the Nenana River Sander, which she follows up to Cantwell.

Course

  • 0 km: The highway begins in Paxson
  • 33 km: Bridge over the River Tangle
  • 34 km: watershed (water flows towards the south to Prince William Sound, the water north to the Yukon River and the Bering Sea with this )
  • 40 km: Bridge over Rock Creek
  • 57 km: Maclaren Summit
  • 68 km: Bridge over the River Maclaren
  • 90 km: Bridge over the Clearwater Creek
  • 128 km: bridge over the Susitna River
  • 153 km: Bridge over the Canyon Creek
  • 168 km: Bridge over the River Brushkana
  • 179 km: Bridge over the Seattle Creek
  • 180 km: border to the Matanuska- Susitna Borough
  • 197 km: West of the Denali is visible
  • 206 km: Bridge across the Fish Creek
  • 214 km: Crossing the George Parks Highway
  • 218 km: Cantwell, endpoint of the highway
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