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Seward Highway starting at Anchorage

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Recorded distance
204 km
Riding-time estimate
2 h 45
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

Repeated coastal bends, headlands and frequent viewpoint stops. It also links naturally to Kenai Fjords National Park.

Access context

Check seasonal gates, park access and state 511 notices before publication. Specific flag: weather; wildlife.

Seasonal context

Jun-Sep

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Anchorage

    Anchorage lies where Cook Inlet meets the Chugach mountains, a city of about three hundred thousand people that holds nearly half of Alaska's population and yet ends abruptly at the edge of the forest. Moose wander through the suburbs, and on a clear day, the snowy peaks of the Alaska Range, including Denali far to the north, float on the horizon. The city grew from a railway construction camp in 1915, and was badly damaged by the Good Friday earthquake in 1964, among the most powerful ever recorded.

    Read the complete Anchorage write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Anchorage sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Seward.

  2. 2. Seward

    Alaska's Seward Highway earns its reputation from beginning to end, and Seward is where it runs out of road. The town sits at the head of Resurrection Bay, a fjord on the Kenai Peninsula ringed by steep, snow-streaked mountains, and it has a working harbour full of fishing boats, tour vessels and the occasional cruise ship. It was founded in 1903 as the ocean terminus for a railroad to the interior, and it is also mile zero of the Iditarod Trail, the dog-sledding route to Nome. The 1964 Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in North America, destroyed much of the waterfront here, and the town has rebuilt itself since.

    Read the complete Seward write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Seward comes up 204 km in.

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