|
|
The Alaska Marine Highway.
- Article from:
- Alaska Highway Adventure Guide
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Hunter Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said, "When choosing between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before"? There are those of us who see the world as impossibly huge, too big for one lifetime, certainly too big to backtrack. For these people, a one-way driving trip is enough; and for those folks, there is another way home, the Alaska Marine Highway, a journey like no other in the world.
Coastal Alaska's equivalent of a bus system, the Alaska Marine Highway runs nine ships to 34 ports, covering over 3,500 miles in two separate routes. The Southeast Route--what you hook up to from Skagway or Haines--is 1,600 miles long, the longest single ferry route in the ...