Dalton Highway
Dalton Highway is a State Scenic Byway in Alaska. Within Alaska it covers roughly 420 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Dalton Highway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Dalton Highway is the legendary "haul road" built to supply the oil fields, running about 414 miles of mostly gravel from north of Fairbanks across the Arctic Circle and the Brooks Range to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean. It crosses the treeless tundra of the North Slope over Atigun Pass, with the oil pipeline as a near-constant companion and almost no services for hundreds of miles. It is one of the most remote and demanding drives in North America.
- crosses the Arctic Circle
- Atigun Pass & Brooks Range
- North Slope tundra
- trans-Alaska pipeline
- gravel haul road
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.