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YUKON-CHARLEY
RIVERS NATIONAL
West Point Twin Mt
5,870 ft 5,785 ft PRESERVE
Charley EAGLE Fall colors in the forests around Dawson City, Canada
Salcha
Goodpast er
Fairbanks Fortymile
Mount Harper
Big Delta 6,520 ft THE FORTYMILE
COUNTRY TOP OF THE WORLD HWY
Tanana DELTA JUNCTION CHICKEN DAWSON CITY
Dot
Flat
Lake Mosquito TAYLOR HWY CANADA
Black ALASKA HIGHWAY
Rapid
Tanacross
TOK RIVER STATE
Isabel Pass TOK RECREATION SITE
DENALI HIGHWAY 3,510 ft Tetlin Junction
PAXSON Tetlin
Paxson Mentasta Lake NORTHWAY
TOK CUT-OFF Mountains Nabesna
Lake
Mentasta
Port Alcan
Chistochina Copper Slana TETLIN NATIONAL
Susitna Lake Lake
RICHARDSON HWY
Louise Gakona Mount Sanford WILDLIFE REFUGE
Volcano
LAKE LOUISE STATE 16,183 ft Skookum Nutzotin Mountains
RECREATION AREA Gulkana Nabesna
GLENNALLEN
GLENN HIGHWAY Chisana
W r a n g e l l M t s
Anchorage Chickaloon COPPER Mount
Tazlina CENTER Wrangell WRANGELL Haines,
Matanuska Lake 14,117 ft Whitehorse
MATANUSKA Tonsina EDGERTON HWY/
GLACIER McCARTHY RD Swift-flowing creek in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Chitina
Copper Mount Bonanza
16,366 ft
Valdez McCarthy
Mount Bear Getting Around
Chitina
14,780 ft In this region of great distances, a car or SUV will open
up the spectacular country along the Alaska, Glenn, and
Chugach Mountains
Richardson Highways. There are relatively few public transport
links. One bus line connects Whitehorse, in Canada, with
Mount Steller
10,582 ft Anchorage and Fairbanks via the Glenn and Alaska Highways,
respectively. In the summer, there is a daily van service between
Mount
Mount Miller St. Elias Anchorage, Tok, Glennallen, and McCarthy. Popular guided tours
B e r i n g 8,845 ft 17,949 ft serve as de facto bus links between Fairbanks, Tok, Chicken,
G l a c i e r Dawson City, and Eagle. In the summer, a riverboat operates
KENNICOTT -ST. ELIAS NAT IO NA L PA RK
daily along the Yukon River between Eagle and Dawson City.
Bush planes provide transport to remote destinations, such
Icy Bay as the wilder part of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
For keys to symbols see back flap
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