Glenn Highway

The Glenn Highway (part of Alaska Route 1 ) is a 301 km long Highway in Alaska, which connects Anchorage to Glennallen. Together with the Tok Cut -Off ( from Glennallen to Tok ), which is often the Glenn Highway attributed, resulting in a total length of 528 km.

The origins of the highway date back to the 1930s, when the Palmer Road Anchorage association with Palmer. During the Second World War the street from the Alaska Road Commission was completed to Anchorage to Glennallen and thus to the continental highway system.

The highway follows the wide valley between the Talkeetna Mountains and the Chugach Mountains, at first almost 50 km along the Knik Arms, an inlet of Cook Inlet, and then to 170 km parallel to the Matanuska River.

The name of the highway comes from Edwin Glenn, a pioneer of the U.S. Army, the. During the Gold Rush to the Klondike a inneralaskanische route, the Valdez Trail, looking to the gold fields

Course

  • 0 km: The highway begins in Anchorage
  • 12 km: Fort Richardson
  • 22 km: Eagle River, small place, which was created after the Second World War in the catchment area of Anchorage on Highway
  • 34 km: Chugiak
  • 42 km: Eklutna, Athabasca Indian village with 25 residents
  • 50 km: three bridges over the delta of the Knik River
  • 51 km: Bridge over the Matanuska River
  • 57 km: Crossing the George Parks Highway
  • 68 km: Palmer, town of 3000 inhabitants, founded in 1916 as the Alaska Railroad Station
  • 80 km: junction with the Hatcher Pass Road
  • 81 km: The only musk ox farm in the world
  • 98 km: Sutton, place with 340 inhabitants, founded in 1918 as a coal mining settlement
  • 123 km: Chickaloon, village with 150 inhabitants
  • 137 km: Long Lake, narrow canyon below the Highways
  • 164 km: Matanuska Glacier
  • 196 km: Tahneta Pass ( 914 m)
  • 208 km Eureka Summit ( 1,013 m)
  • 251 km: Tazlina Glacier
  • 267 km: Tolsona Mountain
  • 301 km: Glennallen, place with 900 inhabitants at the western edge of the Wrangell-St Elias National Park, the end point of the highway and junction with the Richardson Highway
Anchorage, Alaska Tok Cut-Off Palmer (Alaska) Alaska Highway Copper River Highway Edgerton Highway Elliott Highway Sterling Highway
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