 Dalton Highway | ||||
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| James W. Dalton Highway North Slope Haul Road | ||||
 Dalton Highway highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF | ||||
| Length | 414 mi (666 km) | |||
| Existed | 1974–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  AK-2 (Elliot Highway) near Livengood | |||
| North end | East Lake Colleen Drive in Deadhorse | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Alaska | |||
| Boroughs | Unorganized, North Slope | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km)[1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields. Once called the North Slope Haul Road (a name by which it is still sometimes known), it was built as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1974. It is named after James Dalton, a lifelong Alaskan and an engineer who supervised construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in Alaska and, as an expert[according to whom?] in Arctic engineering,[citation needed] served as a consultant in early oil exploration in northern Alaska.[2] It is also the subject of the second episode of America's Toughest Jobs and the first episode of the BBC's World's Most Dangerous Roads.[3]
- ^ "Dalton Highway". United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2009.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
BLM2022was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Alaska". World's Most Dangerous Roads. Season 1. Episode 1. July 7, 2012. BBC Two. Retrieved May 21, 2013.