Taylor Highway

The Taylor Highway is a road in Alaska (Alaska Route 5 ) that connects to a length of 259 km Tetlin Junction on the Alaska Highway with the small town of Eagle on the Yukon River.

The highway was built in 1953 to provide access to Chicken, Eagle and the historic Fortymile Mining District, as well as a connection to Dawson. The first nearly 100km are paved, then the highway becomes a dirt track. It winds through hilly, densely forested, largely deserted landscape to the north and ends at the Yukon. From October to April the road is closed to motor vehicles, snowmobiles only are allowed to use it.

Course

  • 0 km: The highway begins at Tetlin Junction.
  • 7 km: Junction to Four Mile Lake.
  • 9.5 km: Beginning of the Tanana Valley State Forrest.
  • 19.5 km: End of the Tanana Valley State Forrest.
  • 56.5 km: Beginning of the Fortymile Mining District.
  • 69 km: Wooden bridge over the Cabin Creek.
  • 81 km: Bridge over the Taylor Creek.
  • 103 km: Bridge over the Fortymile River ( origin of this name is the removal of the river from Fort Reliance, an old trading post at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike ).
  • 106 km: Chicken, a small village with about 40 inhabitants, the original Ptarmigan ( grouse ) should have said, because of the spelling of the miners who settled there but came to its simpler name. The writer Ann Purdy lived here.
  • 107 km: Junction of Airport Road to the runway of Chicken.
  • 108 km: Bridge over the Chicken Creek.
  • 121 km: Bridge over the South Fork River.
  • 132 km: Bridge over the Walker Fork River.
  • 145 km: Jack Wade, a miners' settlement.
  • 154 km: Crossing Jack Wade Junction, branch to the Top of the World Highway to the Canadian border and to Dawson.
  • 182 km: Bridge over the Fortymile River.
  • 183 km: Bridge over the O'Brien Creek.
  • 189 km: Bridge over the Alder Creek.
  • 202 km: Bridge over the Columbia Creek.
  • 213 km: Bridge over the King Solomon Creek.
  • 220 km: Bridge over the North Fork Solomon Creek.
  • 242 km: Bridge over the Discovery Fork River.
  • 246 km: Two bridges over the American Creek.
  • 259 km: Eagle, end point of the Taylor Highway. A village with about 200 inhabitants, which was founded in 1899 by the U.S. Army.
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