Portage Glacier Highway

Portage Glacier Highway
Whittier Access Road
Portage Glacier Highway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF
Length	11.59 mi[2][3] (18.65 km)
Existed	June 7, 2000[1]–present
Major junctions
West end	AK-1 (Seward Highway) in Portage
East end	Alaska Marine Highway ferry terminal in Whittier
Location
Country	United States
State	Alaska
Boroughs	Municipality of Anchorage, Unorganized
Highway system
Alaska Routes Interstate Scenic Byways

The Portage Glacier Highway, or Portage Glacier Road, is a highway located in the U.S. state of Alaska. The highway is made up of a series of roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the Portage Glacier area of the Chugach National Forest and the city of Whittier to the Seward Highway. Most of the highway travels through mainly rural areas just north of the Kenai Peninsula, with the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel passing under Maynard Mountain, part of the Chugach Mountain Range. Parts of the route were first constructed in the early 1900s, and the entire highway was completed on June 7, 2000, as part of the Whittier Access Project. The main portion of the highway traveling from the western terminus to the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center at Portage Lake is designated as National Forest Highway 35 by the United States Forest Service (USFS).