Dalton Highway

Dalton Highway
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
Alaska Routes Interstate Scenic Byways
← AK-10 → AK-98

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] The road is about one-quarter paved and three-quarters gravel.^{[citation needed]}