Tok Cut-Off

Tok Cut-Off
Route information
Length:	125 mi (201 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Alaska Routes 1/4 (Richardson Highway) north of Glennallen
East end:	Alaska Route 2 (Alaska Highway) in Tok
Highway system
Alaska Routes

The Tok Cut-Off at the Denali Fault shortly after the M7.9 2002 Denali Quake. Researchers on the ground measured a 23 feet (7 m) offset on the road at the fault line.

See also: Alaska Route 1

The Tok Cut-Off is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska, running 125 miles (201 km) from Gakona Junction on the Richardson Highway, 14 miles (23 km) north of Glennallen, to Tok on the Alaska Highway.

The road was built in the 1940s and 1950s to connect Tok more directly with the Richardson Highway. It was called a "cut-off" because it allowed motor travelers coming north on the Alaska Highway to travel to Valdez and Anchorage without going to Delta Junction and then traveling south on the Richardson Highway, taking 120 miles (193 km) off the trip.

It is sometimes considered to be part of the Glenn Highway (q.v.).

Towns and places along the Tok Cut-Off

• Gakona Junction (Richardson Highway), mile 0 (km 0)
• Gakona, mile 3 (km 4)
• Chistochina, mile 33 (km 53)
• Slana and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, via Nabesna Road, mile 60 (km 96)
• Mentasta Lake, mile 81 (km 130)
• Tok, mile 125 (km 201)