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Return to:   The Richardson Highway (Formerly the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail) - Alaska's first highway sprang from a frontier pack trail that served thousands of gold miners as the Valdez-Eagle Trail.
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Intersection with two road signs

Sign in image: "Richardson Highway, Valdez - Chitina - Fairbanks Military Road Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission." Caterpillar tractor pulling man on grader, Richardson Highway, Alaska, with logs alongside road. Also from verso: "Richardson Highway. Holt 'Cat' & an Adams Leaning Wheel Grader. 6-10-23. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." June 10, 1923. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 3/4". Alaska State Library - Historical Collections. 

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