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Article: Taking the Road less traveled: tourists, commercial drivers share space on the Dalton Highway.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Many adventurous travelers dream of visiting the Last Frontier and exploring its cities, villages and out-of-the-way places. But for the truly hardcore tourist, there's nothing like the thrill of driving the James B. Dalton Highway, also known as the North Slope Haul Road, to the very northern reaches of the state. Once the environ of commercial big rigs carrying freight and equipment to the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay, the highway has steadily become a destination for those looking for something well beyond the beaten path.
Open only to commercial traffic until 1981, the 414-mile span begins 84 miles north of Fairbanks and ends in ...