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template: byway.jade
id: "12397"
name: Richardson Highway
distance: "128"
duration: 2 hours one way.
description: "Known to some as \"Alaska's Route 66,\" this modern-day road follows century-old gold stampede trails that led to Eagle and later to Fairbanks. "
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.dot.state.ak.us/stwdplng/scenic/byways-richardson.shtml"
    name: Richardson Highway
designations: 
  - Alaska State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - AK
ll: 
  - -146.34996000000004
  - 61.12910099999999
bounds: 
  - - -147.710159
    - 61.057911000000104
  - - -145.11111499999998
    - 64.83470900000009

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The Richardson Highway is Alaska's oldest highway, beginning as a gold rush trail to Eagle in 1898. General Wilds P. Richardson worked to upgrade it to a wagon road in 1910 after the Fairbanks gold strike. It was made suitable for automobiles in the 1920s and was paved in 1957. Major side excursions include Chitina and McCarthy via the Edgerton Highway and McCarthy Road.