List of Alaska Routes

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.

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.

Non-contiguous

Highways 7 and 10 consist of multiple separately named segments that do not physically approach each other, unless the Alaska Marine Highway System ferries as part of Alaska Route 7, and former Copper River and Northwestern Railway track bed as part of Alaska Route 10, are included.

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

Numbers and names do not always coincide well. 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.)

Within Alaska, roads are almost invariably referred to by name or general destination, and not by number(s). Many residents are unfamiliar with official highway numbers even for those highways that they use frequently. Visitors are usually advised to avoid using highway numbers in asking for directions.

Mileposts

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

Highways by number

Number	Name(s)	Route
Alaska Route 1	Tok Cut-Off Richardson Highway Glenn Highway Seward Highway Sterling Highway	Tok to Homer
Alaska Route 2	Alaska Highway Richardson Highway Steese Highway Elliott Highway	Canada–United States border to Manley Hot Springs
Alaska Route 3	Parks Highway	Mile 35 (km 56) Glenn Highway to Fairbanks
Alaska Route 4	Richardson Highway	Valdez to Delta Junction
Alaska Route 5	Taylor Highway	Tetlin Junction (Alaska Highway east of Tok) to Eagle
Alaska Route 6	Steese Highway	Fox to Circle
Alaska Route 7	Haines Highway Glacier Highway Egan Drive Mitkof Highway Tongass Highway	discontinuous; Haines to Canada–United States border with segments in Juneau, Petersburg, and Ketchikan
Alaska Route 8	Denali Highway	Paxson to Cantwell
Alaska Route 9	Seward Highway	Seward to Tern Lake Junction (Sterling Highway)
Alaska Route 10	Edgerton Highway Copper River Highway	discontinuous; Mile 83 (km 133) Richardson Highway to Chitina and Cordova to Million Dollar Bridge
Alaska Route 11	Dalton Highway	Mile 73 (km 117) Elliott Highway to Deadhorse
U.S. Route 97	Former Highway	U.S. Route 97 was in Alaska on present Alaska Route 2. The road was connected to the part of US 97 in Washington state by the Alaska Highway.
Alaska Route 98	Klondike Highway	Skagway to Canada–United States border

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.

Many roads in Alaska are not numbered at all; a few of these are listed below in addition to those above.

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, 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 Alaska Route 2.

The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration.^[4]

Alaska Marine Highway

Alaska's Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the Federal Highway Administration on June 13, 2002;^[5]
and later declared an All-American Road by the Federal Highway Administration on September 22, 2005.^[6]

See also

• List of state highways in the United States
• List of British Columbia provincial highways
• List of Yukon territorial highways
• The Milepost

References

External links

• "Map of Alaska state highways and numbers" (PDF).  from the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities