Dalton Highway
The Dalton Highway stretches 414 miles across northern Alaska from Livengood (84 miles north of Fairbanks) to Deadhorse and the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Built during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, this mostly gravel highway travels through rolling, forested hills, across the Yukon River and Arctic Circle, through the rugged Brooks Range, and over the North Slope to the Arctic Ocean. Along most of its length, you'll see no strip malls, no gift shops, no service stations—just forest, tundra, and mountains, crossed by a double ribbon of road and pipe.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages a swath of public lands along the highway from the Yukon River to the north side of the Brooks Range. Within the Dalton corridor, the BLM maintains campgrounds, rest areas, interpretive panels and an award-winning visitor center.
While the Dalton Highway remains open all year, conditions can be extreme even in April and May. Be fully prepared for temperatures and windchills below 0 degrees F. Late winter snowstorms can reduce visibility to zero and snowdrifts can block the road for many hours. Until mid- to late May the only services are at Coldfoot, about 250 miles north of Fairbanks. There is no cell phone service or public Internet connection along the Dalton Highway.
Contact Us
If you have questions about traveling the Dalton Highway, please contact us:
Central Yukon Field Office
1150 University Avenue
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709-3844
tel: 907-474-2200 or (toll free) 1-800-437-7021
email: CentralYukon@blm.gov
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