Alaska Route 1
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| Sterling Highway, Seward Highway (part), Glenn Highway, and Tok Cut-Off Highway | ||||
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| Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF | ||||
| Length: | 545.92 mi[1] (878.57 km) | |||
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| West end: | Lake Street at Homer | |||
| Kenai Spur Hwy in Soldotna Downtown Anchorage  AK-3 (Parks Hwy) near Wasilla AK-4 (Richardson Hwy) at Glennallen |
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| East end: |  AK-2 (Alaska Hwy) at Tok |
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Alaska Route 1 is a state highway in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska. It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage. It is the only route in Alaska to contain significant portions of freeway: the Seward Highway in south Anchorage and the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer.
[edit] Route description
Route 1 begins at the Alaska Marine Highway's Homer Ferry Terminal at the end of the Sterling Highway in Homer. It follows the entire Sterling Highway through Soldotna to the junction with the Seward Highway north of Seward, where it meets the north end of Alaska Route 9. There it turns north and follows the Seward Highway to its end in Anchorage, and follows the one-way pairs of Ingra and Gambell Streets and 6th and 5th Avenues, continuing east on 5th Avenue to the beginning of the Glenn Highway. Route 1 follows the entire length of the Glenn Highway, passing the south end of the George Parks Highway (Alaska Route 3) near Wasilla and meeting the Richardson Highway (Alaska Route 4) near Glennallen. A short overlap north along Route 4 takes Route 1 to the Tok Cut-Off Highway, which it follows northeast to its end at the Alaska Highway (Alaska Route 2) at Tok.[2][3]
The majority of Route 1 is part of the Interstate Highway System; only the route between Homer and Soldotna does not carry an unsigned Interstate designation. The entire length of Interstate A-3 follows Route 1 from the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna to the turn in downtown Anchorage; there Interstate A-1 begins, running to Tok along Route 1. (A-1 continues to the Yukon border along Alaska Route 2, the Alaska Highway.)[4][5] Only a short portion of the Seward Highway south of downtown Anchorage and a longer portion of the Glenn Highway northeast to Route 3 are built to freeway standards; the proposed Highway to Highway Connection would link these through downtown.
[edit] Major intersections
| Borough | Location | Mile[1] | Road(s) | Notes |
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| Kenai Peninsula | Homer | 0.00 | Beginning of state maintenance (Land's End Resort) | |
| 0.09 | Ferry Terminal Road - Homer Ferry Terminal | |||
| Soldotna | 81.03 | Kenai Spur Highway - Kenai | ||
| 138.18 |  AK-9 south (Seward Highway) – Seward |
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| Municipality of Anchorage | Anchorage | 179.72 | Portage Glacier Road - Whittier | |
| South end of freeway | ||||
| 218.39 | 154th Avenue | |||
| 218.81 | Old Seward Highway, Rabbit Creek Road | |||
| 219.37 | DeArmoun Road | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 220.48 | Huffman Road | |||
| 221.45 | O'Malley Road | |||
| 222.96 | Dimond Boulevard | |||
| 223.66 | 76th Avenue | Southbound exit only | ||
| 224.46 | Dowling Road | Exits to barbell roundabout interchange. | ||
| 225.46 | Tudor Road | |||
| 226.01 | 36th Avenue | |||
| North end of freeway | ||||
| 226.98 | 20th Avenue | |||
| North end of Seward Highway | ||||
| 228.00 | Ingra Street, 6th Avenue | AK-1 turns | ||
| 229.37 | Airport Heights Drive, Mountain View Drive | |||
| South end of Glenn Highway | ||||
| South end of freeway | ||||
| 230.04 | Bragaw Street | |||
| 231.08 | Boniface Parkway, Mountain View Drive - Elmendorf AFB | |||
| 231.84 | Turpin Road | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
| 232.66 | Muldoon Road | |||
| 234.22 | Arctic Valley Road | Northbound exit only | ||
| 235.71 | Fort Richardson, Arctic Valley | |||
| 239.70 | Eagle River Loop, Hiland Road | |||
| 241.45 | Eagle River | |||
| 243.30 | North Eagle River | |||
| 245.31 | South Birchwood | |||
| 248.73 | North Birchwood | |||
| 249.73 | Peters Creek | |||
| 250.75 | Business Loop - North Peters Creek | |||
| 252.03 | Mirror Lake | |||
| 253.17 | Thunderbird Falls | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
| 254.05 | Eklutna | |||
| 257.57 | Old Glenn Highway | |||
| Matanuska-Susitna | 259.06 | Knik River Access | ||
| 263.32 | AK-3 north – Wasilla, Fairbanks |
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| North end of freeway | ||||
| Unorganized | Glennallen | 409.54 | AK-4 south (Richardson Highway) – Valdez |
South end of AK-4 overlap |
| 423.54 | AK-4 north (Richardson Highway) – Fairbanks |
North end of AK-4 overlap | ||
| Tok | 545.92 | AK-2 (Alaska Highway) |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Central Region General Log, April 25, 2006 (Routes 110000 (Sterling Highway), 130000 (Seward Highway), 134150 (Ingra Street), 134600 (6th Avenue), 134440 (5th Avenue), and 135000 (Glenn Highway))
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Northern Region General Log, April 25, 2006 (Routes 135000 (Glenn Highway), 190000 (Richardson Highway), and 230000 (Tok Cut-Off Highway)) - ^ Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, National Highway System Maps, April 2006
- ^ Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Alaska Traffic Manual Supplement, January 17, 2003
- ^ Federal Highway Administration, [[National Highway System (United States)|]] Viewer, accessed August 2007
- ^ Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Routes, April 2006
- Interstate Highways in Alaska
- Transportation in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Transportation in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska
- State highways in Alaska
- Transportation in Anchorage, Alaska
- Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska
- Transportation in Unorganized Borough, Alaska
