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Beaver Yukon
Circle
Prudhoe Bay
Stevens Beaver Creek
Village Central
Circle
Mount Tozi DALTON HIGHWAY Hot Springs
5,500 ft Rampart Livengood STEESE HIGHWAY TOUR
Yukon ELLIOT HIGHWAY Tolovana Chatanika Chena Hot
Springs
Tanana Minto Fox
Manley Chatanika College Chena River State
Recreation Area
Hot Springs
Tanana Tolovana FAIRBANKS
Hot Springs ESTER North Pole
Delta
NENANA RICHARDSON HIGHWAY Moose dredging for pond weed, Denali National Park
Junction
Anderson PARKS HWY Wood
Kantishna Nenana Getting Around
D E N A L I HEALY Mount Hayes the Parks Highway, which connects the northern part of the
The Western Interior has evolved around one thin lifeline,
13,786 ft
DENALI
Mount
N AT I O N A L VILLAGE NENANA Deborah Mat-Su to Fairbanks. Daily summer bus and train services link
Anchorage, Denali National Park, and Fairbanks. Daily flights
12,298 ft
Toklat
RIVER
operate between Anchorage and Fairbanks; the Interior’s
Kantishna Wonder CANTWELL Paxson largest city is also the most convenient airport for scheduled
Lake
P A R K and chartered flights to bush communities in Arctic and
Western Alaska. Radiating out from Fairbanks, the Chena Hot
DENALI HIGHWAY TOUR
Springs Road, the Steese Highway, and the Elliott Highway
DENALI STATE
Denali 20,320 ft link the city with outly ing areas that are best accessed
Mount Foraker
17,344 ft with an organized tour or by car.
PARK
Petersville Talkeetna Mountains 0 kilometers 50 50
0 miles
TALKEETNA
Trapper Creek
Yentna
Montana
Creek
Skwentna Glennallen
WILLOW
NANCY LAKE STATE HOUSTON
RECREATION AREA
Wasilla
BIG Anchorage
LAKE
A floatplane flying across Denali and the Alaska Range
For hotels and restaurants in this area see p244 and pp254–5

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