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The Fairbanks welcome sign appears along SR 2 (Richardson Highway) north by the entrance ramp from Cushman Street.
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Richardson Highway concludes at the forthcoming intersection with Airport Way (old SR 3) west and Gaffney Road east into Fort Wainwright.
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SR 2 transitions into Steese Highway, an at-grade arterial, north from the traffic light with Airport Way.
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Gaffney Road extends Airport Way east to the main gate into Fort Wainwright.
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The Airport Way/Steese Expressway Reconstruction Project reconfigures the junction along SR 2 at Gaffney Road into a Continuous Flow Intersection Median U-Turn (CFI-MUT).1 Work commenced in June 2022.2
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SR 2 (Steese Highway) runs north along the Chena River on the ensuing stretch.
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10th Avenue west to Cushman Street (old SR 2) leads to the Fairbanks city center.
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SR 2 curves northeast across the Chena River at Graehl Park.
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The succeeding traffic light on Steese Highway northbound is at 3rd Street.
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3rd Street west serves a retail area at Old Steese Highway and Minnie Street. East from SR 2, 3rd Street becomes Farewell Avenue through a residential area.
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College Road is an arterial route running 4.08 miles north to the Tanana Valley State Fair and west to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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SR 2 continues north as a controlled access arterial paralleling the commercial corridor along Old Steese Highway (old SR 2).
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Construction anticipated for 2025/26 constructs a diverging diamond interchange (DDI) in place of the signalized intersection joining SR 2 (Steese Highway) and Johansen Expressway.3
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Johansen Expressway is a controlled access arterial or freeway west 4.19 miles from SR 2 to University Avenue at Geist Road.
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SR 2 (Steese Highway) curves northeast to a signalized intersection with Farmers Loop Road north and Fairhill Road south.
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Serving the Farmers Loop community, Farmers Loop circles 8.42 miles west from SR 2 to College Road and Alumni Drive by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Steese Highway upgrades to a controlled access expressway ahead of a dogbone interchange with Chena Hot Springs Road.
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Chena Hot Springs Road travels 56.41 miles east from adjacent Old Steese Highway to Steele Creek, Two Rivers, Pleasant Valley and the Chena Hot Springs Resort.
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Construction adding roundabouts at the exchange joining Steese Highway and Chena Hot Springs Road was completed in 2020.
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Steele Creek Spur links SR 2 with Gilmore Trail north and Steele Creek Road to Bennett Road east.
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Hagelbarger Avenue extends west from Steele Creek Spur at SR 2 (Steese Highway) 0.99 miles to Old Steese Highway by McGrath Road.
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Turning northwest, SR 2 (Steese Highway) lowers into French Gulch.
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The expressway portion of Steese Highway concludes north of Tera Road.
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The Alyeska Pipeline View Point lines the east side of SR 2 (Steese Highway) by parallel Engineer Creek.
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An elevated section of the Alaska Pipeline runs alongside SR 2 north of mile marker 8. The pipeline stretches from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.
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A sign board at the view point indicates that the 800 mile long Alaska Pipeline was constructed from March 27, 1975 to May 31, 1977 at a cost of $8 billion.
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The Alaska Pipeline is 48 inches in diameter. Elevated sections are used in permafrost areas where heat from the oil within the pipeline might thaw frozen ground, leading to instability.
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Gold Mine Trail weaves through a residential area east 3.98 miles to Gimore Trail.
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Goldstream Road stems west from SR 2 to Goldstream and the Gold Dredge Number 8 National Historic District.
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Continuing into the community of Fox, SR 2 (Steese Highway) next meets SR 6 and Old Steese Highway by the Fox Weigh Station.
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Steese Highway separates with SR 2 to follow SR 6 northeast 144 miles to Circle.
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Old Steese Highway north ties into the intersection with the south end of SR 6 at Fox.
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State Route 6 (Steese Highway) travels 16 miles northeast from Fox to Chatanika and 111 miles to Central.
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The remainder of SR 2 north and west from Fox follows Elliott Highway.
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Manley lies at the west end of State Route 2, 145 miles from SR 6 (Steese Highway) at Fox.
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Sources:
- HSIP: Airport Way/Steese Expressway Reconstruction. https://dot.alaska.gov/nreg/ garsreconstruction/ Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADT&PF) project web site.
- "Two Fairbanks road projects end as work begins on big intersection." https://fm.kuac.org/local-news/2022-06-01/ two-fairbanks-road-projects-end-as -work-begins-on-big-intersection KUAC TV-9 (Fairbanks, AK), June 1, 2022.
- Steese Expressway / Johansen Expressway Interchange, Project Fact Sheet. https://dot.alaska.gov/nreg/ steese-johansen/files/sj-fact-sheet.pdf Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADT&PF) project web site.
Photo Credits:
05/08/23 by AARoads
Connect with:
State Route 3 - Parks Highway
State Route 6 - Steese Highway
Airport Way - Fairbanks
Johansen Expressway - Fairbanks
Page Updated 06-14-2023.