Haines Highway - Valley of the Eagles
Haines Highway - Valley of the Eagles is a State Scenic Byway in Alaska. Within Alaska it covers roughly 50 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Haines Highway - Valley of the Eagles with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Haines Highway runs up the Chilkat River valley from the coastal town of Haines into British Columbia and the Yukon, past glaciated peaks and the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Each late autumn, thousands of bald eagles gather along the river to feed on a late salmon run — one of the largest concentrations of eagles on earth. The road climbs from rainforest to alpine tundra at Chilkat Pass.
- Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
- thousands of eagles
- Chilkat River valley
- glaciated peaks
- Haines
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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.