List of Alaska Routes

Alaska Routes are both numbered and named. There have been only twelve numbers issued (1 through 11 and 98), and the numbering often has no obvious pattern. For example, Alaska Route 4 runs north and south, whereas Alaska Route 2 runs largely east and west, but runs north and south passing through and to the north of Fairbanks. The Klondike Highway, built in 1978, was unnumbered until 1998, when it was given its designation during the centennial of the Klondike Gold Rush. However, many Alaskan highways of greater length than the Klondike Highway remain unnumbered.

Shields for Alaska Routes
Highway names
InterstatesInterstate A-n (A-n)
StateAlaska Route n (AK-n) or Route n
System links
The Sterling Highway is a typical example of what is considered a highway in Alaska; four lane restricted-access routes are not used outside of the largest cities.

Mileposts, frequently used for road markers and official addressing in rural areas, are also more commonly reckoned by landmark names.

Names versus numbers
The Denali Highway has only 23 miles (37 km) of pavement, the remaining 123 miles (198 km) is gravel. The road is closed in the winter months

Within Alaska, roads are almost invariably referred to by name or general destination, and not by number(s).

Numbered routes often span multiple highway names. For example, Alaska Route 1 can refer to any of the Glenn Highway, Seward Highway, Sterling Highway, or Tok Cut-Off; meanwhile, portions of the Seward Highway are numbered Alaska Route 1, 9 and Interstate A3.

Interstate highway shields are not posted along highways in Alaska; these designations occur only on paper.

Marine Highway system

The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).[1] The Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the FHWA on June 13, 2002;[2] and later declared an All-American Road on September 22, 2005.[3]

The system is divided into different regions of service: Southeast, Cross-Gulf, Prince William Sound, South-Central, and Southwest.[4][5][6]

Highways by route number
Number Length (mi) Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Local names Formed Removed Notes
AK-1 545.92878.57 Marine Highway in HomerAK-2 (Alaska Highway) in Tok Sterling Highway, Seward Highway, Glenn Highway, Richardson Highway, Tok Cut-Off ——
AK-2 456.91735.33 Dead end in Manley Hot SpringsHwy 1 near Whitehorse, YK Elliott Highway, Steese Highway, Richardson Highway, Alaska Highway ——
AK-3 323520 AK-1 (Glenn Highway) in GatewayAK-2 (Richardson Highway) in Fairbanks George Parks Highway ——
AK-4 266428 Marine Highway in ValdezAK-2 (Alaska Highway) in Delta Junction Richardson Highway ——
AK-5 160257 AK-2 (Alaska Highway) in Tetlin JunctionFront Street in Eagle Taylor Highway ——
AK-6 161259 AK-2 (Elliot Highway) in FoxRiver Road in Circle Steese Highway ——
AK-7 150.0241.4 Dead end in KetchikanHaines Highway at near Pleasant Camp, BC Tongass Highway, Mitkof Highway, Egan Drive, Haines Highway —— Segments in Juneau, Petersburg, and Ketchikan, connected by the Marine Highway
AK-8 135217 AK-3 (George Parks Highway) in CantwellAK-4 (Richardson Highway) in Paxson Denali Highway ——
AK-9 36.4958.72 Railway Avenue in SewardAK-1 (Sterling Highway in Moose Pass Seward Highway ——
AK-10 49.579.7 AK-4 (Richardson Highway) in Copper CenterAK-10 Chitina Edgerton Highway ——
AK-10 83.5134.4 Marine Highway in CordovaDead end in McCarthy Copper River Highway, McCarthy Road ——
AK-11 414666 AK-2 Elliott Highway in LivengoodEast Lake Colleen Drive in Deadhorse Dalton Highway ——
AK-98 13.421.6 Marine Highway in SkagwayHwy 2 near Fraser, BC Klondike Highway ——

Highways by name
Anchor Point claims the distinction of being the most westerly point on the contiguous highway system in North America.
Alaska Peninsula Highway approaching "downtown" Naknek.
North Tongass Highway passing through a neighborhood of Ketchikan.

Highways listed below are not signed as numbered state routes.

Name Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus
Alaska Peninsula Highway Naknek King Salmon
Chena Hot Springs Road Old Steese Highway north of Fairbanks Chena Hot Springs
Denali Park Road Mile 237 (km 382) Parks Highway (in Denali National Park) Kantishna
Douglas Highway Douglas Island Douglas Island
Hope Highway AK-1 (Seward Highway) near Hope Dead end in Hope
Kenai Spur Highway AK-1 (Sterling Highway) in Soldotna Bay Beach Road in Nikiski
Minnesota Drive Expressway Old Seward Highway in Anchorage West 15th Avenue in Anchorage
Johansen Expressway University Avenue in College, Alaska AK-2 (Steese Expressway) in Fairbanks
Nome-Council Highway Nome Council
Nome-Taylor Highway Nome Taylor
Nome-Teller Highway Nome Teller, also called the Bob Blodgett Highway
Palmer-Wasilla Highway Palmer Wasilla
Portage Glacier Highway AK-1 (Seward Highway) in Portage Marine Highway in Whittier
Salmon River Road Canada–United States border at Stewart, British Columbia Granduc Mine
Top of the World Highway AK-5 (Taylor Highway) near Jack Wade Hwy 9 at the Canada–United States border
Zimovia Highway Wrangell McCormick Creek Road

List of U.S. Highways in Alaska

At one point, the Alaskan portion of the Alaska Highway was proposed to be designated part of U.S. Highway 97 (US-97), but this was never carried out. Certain prior editions of USGS topographic maps, mostly published during the 1950s, do bear the US-97 highway shield along or near portions of the current AK-2. [7] The Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission lobbied for the designation of US 97 from Fairbanks, Alaska to Mexico City in the late 1950s.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Title 23 Section 218 United States Code" (PDF). U.S. Congress.
  2. "New 2002 National Scenic Byways". Federal Highway Administration.
  3. "New 2005 All-American Roads". Federal Highway Administration.
  4. "AMHS Routes". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  5. "AMHS Running Times". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  6. "AMHS Schedules". Alaska Marine Highway System.
  7. "History". Highway 97 in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, & California. Summit Solutions Ltd. 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  8. "Alaskan At Highway 97 Meeting". The Seattle Times. November 15, 1959. p. 73.
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