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Alaskan State Highway 1 / Glenn Highway

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Glenn Highway (1, A1) (Anchorage-Glennallen)
Major Towns & Places: 1). Anchorage, mile 0 (km 0), 2). Fort Richardson, mile 7 (km 12), 3). Eagle River, mile 13 (km 22),4). Chugiak, mile 21 (km 34), 5). Eklutna, mile 26 (km 42),6). Palmer, mile 42 (km 68), 7). Sutton, mile 61 (km 98), 8). Chickaloon, mile 76 (km 123), Matanuska Glacier, mile 102 (km 164) and Glennallen, mile 187 (km 301)
Kincaid Park, Beach Lake, Eklutna Lake, Hatcher Pass and Sheep Mountain on the way are famous for sking.
This highway is named for Captain Edwin Glenn, leader of an 1898 U.S. Army expedition to find an Alaska route to the Klondike gold fields (the eventual Richardson Highway). The highway was paved in the 1950s. Running parallel to the paths carved by the Matanuska Glacier, the Glenn Highway makes it possible to trace the glaciers that formed this area, and provides some of the most accessible glacier-viewing in the state, as well as amazing geological formations.
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Coordinates:   61°47'28"N   147°40'28"W
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