Richardson Highway
Richardson Highway is a State Scenic Byway in Alaska. Within Alaska it covers roughly 370 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Richardson Highway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Alaska's first road, the Richardson Highway runs from the port of Valdez to Fairbanks, climbing from tidewater over Thompson Pass — one of the snowiest places in the state — past the Worthington Glacier. It threads the dramatic Keystone Canyon with its roadside waterfalls and parallels the trans-Alaska oil pipeline for much of its length. The route crosses the Alaska Range near Delta Junction.
- Thompson Pass
- Worthington Glacier
- Keystone Canyon waterfalls
- trans-Alaska pipeline
- Valdez to Fairbanks
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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.