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
* R504 Kolyma Highway
The R504 Kolyma Highway (russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма», ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road throu ...
* List of Yukon territorial highways
* Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (french: (Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; pt, Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; es, Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in ...
* Sign Post Forest
Sign Post Forest is a collection of signs at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, and is one of the most famous of the landmarks along the Alaska Highway. It was started by a homesick GI in 1942. He was assigned light duty while recovering from an injur ...
* Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing
The Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing (french: Poste frontalier d'Alcan–Beaver Creek) is a border crossing point between the United States and Canada. It is located on the historic Alaska Highway, which was built during World War II for th ...
References
* http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository
External links
*
Alaska Highway – A Yukon perspective
nbsp;– From the Yukon Archives
Alaska Highway Driving Facts
nbsp;– From the authors of the Milepost
Bell's Alaska
nbsp;– mile by mile description of the Alaska Highway
*
Building the Alaska Highway
nbsp;– Companion Website for the PBS program.
Alcan-Highway.com
nbsp;– U.S. Army 95th Engineer Regiment (Colored) building the Alcan Highway
nbsp;– 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
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