Alaska Route 7

Alaska Route 7
Route 7 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF
Length	144.62 mi (232.74 km) 144.62 mi (in four sections)
Component highways	South Tongass Highway North Tongass Highway Mitkof Highway Nordic Drive Egan Drive Old Glacier Highway (Out the road) Haines Highway
Tongass Highway segment
Length	37.1 mi (59.7 km)
South end	Dead end near Ketchikan
Major intersections	Alaska Marine Highway in Ketchikan
North end	Dead end near Ward Cove
Mitkof Highway segment
Length	34.21 mi (55.06 km)
South end	Dead end on Mitkof Island
Major intersections	Alaska Marine Highway in Petersburg
North end	Sandy Beach Road in Petersburg
Egan Drive / Glacier Highway segment
Length	39.01 mi (62.78 km)
South end	Franklin Street in Juneau
Major intersections	Juneau-Douglas Bridge in Juneau Alaska Marine Highway in Juneau
North end	Dead end in Juneau
Haines Highway segment
Length	39.7 mi (63.9 km)
South end	Front Street in Haines
North end	Hwy 3 on the Alaska–British Columbia border
Location
Country	United States
State	Alaska
Boroughs	Ketchikan Gateway, Unorganized, Juneau, Haines
Highway system
Alaska Routes Interstate Scenic Byways
← AK-6 → AK-8

Alaska Route 7 (abbreviated as AK-7) is a state highway in the Alaska Panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of four unconnected pieces which serve some of the Panhandle communities. The Alaska Marine Highway ferries stop in the cities connecting to the Alaska Highway in Yukon via the Haines Highway.

Route description

According to Alaska's supplement to the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, AK-7 follows (from south to north):

• South Tongass Highway, North Tongass Highway (Ketchikan)
• Nordic Drive, Mitkoff Highway (Petersburg)
• Glacier Highway, Egan Drive (Juneau)
• Haines Highway, Haines to Border

No other segments are shown on maps.

The Alaska Marine Highway ferry service connect the sections, but for the most parts the ports are not located at the endpoint of each segment; thus many of the endpoints are dead ends.

Tongass Highway

The southernmost piece of AK-7 is known as the Tongass Highway and heads both ways from Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island. The ferry calls at Ketchikan. Within the city of Ketchikan, it is named Tongass Avenue from the northern city limits at the airport ferry terminal to the Newtown neighborhood. Continuing downtown it is successively Water, Front, Mill and Stedman streets, becoming the Tongass Highway again after passing Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.

Mitkoff Highway / Nordic Drive

Another section of AK-7 is the Mitkoff Highway. Traveling south from Petersburg to the southeast point of Mitkof Island. AK-7 also includes the short Nordic Drive, connecting the Mitkoff Highway to the north point of the island. Petersburg has a ferry terminal.

Egan Drive / Glacier Highway

Egan Drive which is part of AK-7, is the main road in Juneau, replacing the Glacier Highway from downtown Juneau to near the Juneau International Airport. Beyond the airport, AK-7 continues along the Glacier Highway past Auke Bay to its northernmost point near Berners Bay. The extreme southern end of Egan Drive is known as Marine Way. The ferry calls at Auke Bay.

There were plans to extend the road north of Berners Bay as the Lynn Canal Highway; however, the project has been indefinitely shelved due to the state's budget crisis.

Haines Highway

Main article: Haines Highway § Route description

The final piece of AK-7 begins in downtown Haines, another ferry stop; it follows the Haines Highway northwest to the border with British Columbia, Canada. In BC, it continues north as the Haines Highway with no designation, eventually connecting with Yukon Highway 3 (which ends at the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction in the Yukon Territory).

Major intersections

Aerial view of Gastineau Channel and Egan Drive facing south, showing most of the part of the highway which is between downtown Juneau and Lemon Creek

North Tongass Highway, roughly looking east as it passes through a neighborhood just beyond downtown Ketchikan

Borough	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Ketchikan Gateway	​	0.00	0.00	Dead end	Beaver Falls access; southern terminus of AK-7/Tongass Highway
	Ketchikan	15.5	24.9	Ferry Terminal Road — Ketchikan Ferry Terminal	Alaska Marine Highway
	Ward Cove	31.7	51.0	Dead end	Northern terminus of Tongass Highway
Gap in route
Unorganized	Mitkof Island	0.00	0.00	Dead end	Southern terminus of Mitkof Highway
	Petersburg	32.21	51.84	Ferry Terminal Road — Petersburg Ferry Terminal	Alaska Marine Highway
		34.21	55.06	Sandy Beach Road east	Nordic Drive turns east and becomes Sandy Beach Road; northern terminus of Mitkof Highway
Gap in route
City and Borough of Juneau		0.00	0.00	Franklin Street — Downtown, Thane	Southern terminus of Egan Drive
		0.68	1.09	Juneau-Douglas Bridge — Douglas
				Glacier Highway Access Road	Interchange
				Glacier Highway south	AK-7 north overlaps Glacier Highway
		13.15	21.16	Ferry Terminal Road — Auke Bay Ferry Terminal	Alaska Marine Highway
		39.01	62.78	Dead end	Beyond Echo Cove access; northern terminus of Glacier Highway
Gap in route
Haines	Haines	0.00	0.00	Front Street to Haines Ferry Terminal	To Alaska Marine Highway; southern terminus of Haines Highway
Canada–United States border		39.7	63.9	Dalton Cache - Pleasant Camp Border Crossing
				Haines Highway north	Continuation into British Columbia
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

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