Learn about Eagle - Learn about Fortymile River
 

The Taylor Highway provides access to the historic Fortymile gold mining district. It's a narrow winding and beautiful road that joins the Top of the World Highway, which leads to Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

Gold mining dredge on Jack Wade Creek.
Credit: Dan Gullickson, BLM

Wayside near the Yukon border on the Top of the World Highway.
Credit: Sharon Wilson, BLM

Mosquito Fork of the Fortymile River near Chicken.
Credit: Craig McCaa, BLM

• Keep your camera ready for spectacular views of the Alaska Range and the Mentasta Mountains as you head out of Tetlin Junction.
• Pass through the Fortymile goldfields, made famous in Jack London novels. The Fortymile River system is a National Wild & Scenic River with miles of exciting whitewater.
• Visit Chicken, a town named by early settlers unable to spell Ptarmigan.
• The Top of the World Highway joins the Taylor Highway at Jack Wade junction.
• Continue on to the U.S./Canada border at Boundary, then to Dawson City, 78 miles farther. Look for old mine workings along the way.

• Alaska Public Lands Information Center
  907-883-5667
  Alaska Highway MP 1314
  PO Box 359, Tok, AK 99780
• Tok Visitor Center
  907-883-5775
  info@tokalaskainfo.com

Questions about the Scenic Byways web site? dot.scenic.byways@alaska.gov