Sterling Highway
The Sterling Highway is a 229 km / 142 mi long Highway in southern Alaska, the (140 km / 90 mi south of Anchorage ) to Homer runs from the Seward Highway at Tern Lake Junction.
Construction of the highway began in 1947 and was finished in 1950. He is part of Alaska Route 1 It leads west of Tern Lake to Soldotna, parallel to the Kenai River, where it turns south to follow the eastern shore of Cook Inlets. The Sterling Highway is the only highway in the central and western Kenai Peninsula. The majority of the population of the Kenai Peninsula Borough lives along the highway. The highway will also open up more productive and popular fishing grounds.
The southern end of the highway is located on the tip of the Homer Spit, a sandbank 8 km / 5 mi in the Kachemak Bay stretches himself. A ferry terminal here, the road connects with the Alaska Marine Highway.
Milestones along the Sterling Highway at mile 0 not start, but at mile 37 (kilometer 59), because they continue the numbering of the Seward Highway. The kilometer 0 is located in the center of the town of Seward, at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Railway Avenue.
Towns along the highway
- Tern Lake Junction ( mile 37 mile 60)
- Cooper Landing ( mile 48 mile 78)
- Sterling ( mile 81 miles 130)
- Soldotna ( miles 94 miles 152)
- Kasilof ( 109 miles, 175 km )
- Tustumena Lake ( mile 111 kilometers 179)
- Clam Gulch ( mile 118 kilometers 190)
- Ninilchik ( miles 136 miles 218)
- Anchor Point ( mile 156 kilometers 252)
- Homer ( 173 miles, kilometers 278)
Gallery
At mile 274 170/Kilometer towards Homer.
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