Please note: Susan and Hal Osborne, owner/operator of Gold Hill Alaska, — "your one-stop-shop for specialty Alaskan wines, beers, meads and unique gifts" — and Jim Crabb, owner/operator of Nugget Gulch, are on board to help put the Steese Summer Solstice Bicycle Race together.
Heading up the Steese Highway, you can explore the following along the way:
- Steese National Conservation Area
- White Mountains National Recreation Area
- Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River
- Birch Creek Wild and Scenic River
Steese Highway Mileposts
- 8 Mile: Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline viewing area
- 9 Mile: Gold Dredge No. 8 exit
- 11 Mile: Fox General Store and junction with Elliott Highway.
- 16 Mile: Pedro Monument
- 28 Mile: Chatanika Lodge
- 39 Mile: Upper Chatanika River State Recreation Site
- 42 Mile: McKay Trailhead
- 45 Mile: Long Creek Trading Post
- 57 Mile: Junction with U.S. Creek Road with access to Nome Creek Valley
- 60 Mile: Cripple Creek Campground
- 66 Mile: Sourdough Creek
- 85 Mile: Twelvemile Summit, Elevation 3,190 ft.
- 107 Mile: Eagle Summit Wayside
- 107 Mile: Eagle Summit, Elevation 3,624 feet.
- 127 Mile: Central, Population 134 approx., Central in wikipedia.
The "Central Corner" is on the northeast corner of the Steese Highway's junction with the Circle Hot Springs Road, and from 1982 to 2002, Central Corner was the legendary Crabbs Corner, owned and operated by Jim Crabb. Jim now operates Nugget Gulch, 7+ miles up the Circle Hot Springs Road from Central and next door to the now closed Circle Hot Springs Resort. (Note: We are currently contacting Jim Crabb on the status of his development of the hot springs on his property for next summer. Stay tuned, this could be huge. -hgl)
Central, with its year-round facilities at Central Corner (Note: Until we have verified days and hours of operation, please do not assume they will be able to accommodate you on any given trip. We will publish contact information as soon as we have it available. -hgl), and seasonal facilities at Nugget Gulch, is--in our opinion--an attractive destination of recuperation and renewal after a trip of any duration through the Steese National Conservation Area and its surrounding wilderness filling the a large sector of Alaska's Yukon River Wilderness Arc.
- 160 Mile: Circle, Population 100 approx., Circle in wikipedia.
To be continued ...
Note: Mileposts are listed as the distance going up the Steese Highway from its intersection with Airport Way in Fairbanks, and as the last one passed at a given location. For example, Chatanika Lodge is between Milepost 28 and Milepost 29. The best guide to the mileposts of the Alaskan highways can be found in The Milepost®: "Since 1949, the bible of North Country travel."