Dalton Highway
Alaska Scenic Byway 414 mi in Alaska.
About the Dalton Highway
A trip along the Dalton Highway is an adventure that will take you on the only road in the United States to cross the Yukon River, Arctic Circle, and Brooks Range. Named for James William Dalton, a North Slope engineer, the Dalton was originally developed as a haul road connecting the Yukon River and Prudhoe Bay during construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities's own description, in its words. Byway page on dot.alaska.gov.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 61 · on the roadFive Mile Campground · Bureau of Land Management
- Mile 115 · 0.6 mi offArctic Circle Campground · Bureau of Land Management · 19 sites · reservable
- Mile 175 · on the roadColdfoot Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 179 · on the roadMarion Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management
- Mile 179 · on the roadMarion Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · 27 sites · reservable
- Mile 273 · 2.3 mi offGalbraith Lake Campground · Bureau of Land Management
- Mile 273 · 2.3 mi offGalbraith Lake Campground · Bureau of Land Management · 12 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.