d e e p t ! (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} diffdrummer) wrote,@ 2008-09-07 17:00:00 |
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Denali Highway
Denali Highway is the Route 66 of Alaska. Once the main thoroughfare through the untamed wilderness of Alaska, now virtually abandoned to hunters and wild-game after the new highways replaced it in the early seventies. Currently it is a gravelly pot-holed 135 mile road from Paxson to Cantwell, traveled by a few. It is closed(you can still travel, but at your own risk) from Oct 1 to mid-may.
An 'Alaskan' pond. On the Denali Highway somewhere near Cantwell
This is not the most scenic part of the Denali Highway, it is just one of the numerous lakes/ponds that dot either sides of the highway. It just happened to catch my eye on one of our rest stops on the way. It is a beautiful road, a piece of real Alaska you can experience on four wheels, if you trust your wheels.
(Click here for a detailed mile by mile description of Points of Interest along the Denali highway. Not many guide books cover this road.)
Denali Highway is the Route 66 of Alaska. Once the main thoroughfare through the untamed wilderness of Alaska, now virtually abandoned to hunters and wild-game after the new highways replaced it in the early seventies. Currently it is a gravelly pot-holed 135 mile road from Paxson to Cantwell, traveled by a few. It is closed(you can still travel, but at your own risk) from Oct 1 to mid-may.
An 'Alaskan' pond. On the Denali Highway somewhere near Cantwell
This is not the most scenic part of the Denali Highway, it is just one of the numerous lakes/ponds that dot either sides of the highway. It just happened to catch my eye on one of our rest stops on the way. It is a beautiful road, a piece of real Alaska you can experience on four wheels, if you trust your wheels.
(Click here for a detailed mile by mile description of Points of Interest along the Denali highway. Not many guide books cover this road.)
