one bypassed section of the original route, about southeast of Delta Junction, is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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as "one of the few sections of the road in Alaska virtually unchanged". The unpaved road is used by local residents to access Craig Lake,
[ and is signed as Craig Lake Trail.
Other former segments have deteriorated and are no longer usable. More recent construction projects have deliberately plowed up roadway to close it.
]
See also
* Inter-American Highway
The Inter-American Highway (IAH) is the Central American section of the Pan-American Highway and spans between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Panama City, Panama.
History
The idea of a road being built across all of Central America became a tangib ...
* R504 Kolyma Highway
The R504 Kolyma Highway (, ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located ...
* Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches about 30,000 kilometers (about 19,000 miles) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in the northernmost part of North America to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America. I ...
* Sign Post Forest
* Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing
The Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing () is a border crossing point between the United States and Canada. The Alcan Land Port of Entry (LPOE) on the Alaska Highway manages entry into the US, while the Beaver Creek Port of Entry just outside ...
References
External links
*
Alaska Highway – A Yukon perspective
nbsp;– From the Yukon Archives
Alaska Highway Driving Facts
nbsp;– From the authors of the Milepost
''The Milepost'' is an extensive guide book covering Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and British Columbia. It was first published in 1949 as a guide about traveling along the Alaska Highway, often locally referred to as "The ALCAN" ...
Bell's Alaska
nbsp;– mile by mile description of the Alaska Highway
Building the Alaska Highway
– Companion Website for the PBS program.
Alcan-Highway.com
nbsp;– U.S. Army 95th Engineer Regiment (Colored) building the Alcan Highway
– An article describing contributions made by the four African American regiments of the US Army Corps of Engineers that worked on the ALCAN Project
''Shortcut To Tokyo'', September 1942
one of the earliest articles on the Alaskan Highway
July 23, 2012 ''The New York Times
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American Society of Civil Engineers - International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
*
When Americans Built a Road Across Canada
. ''Canadiana'' – via YouTube
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