USA Rollercoaster Area

A road was built to construct and maintain the trans-Alaska pipeline and to transport workers and materials north to the oil field.
Northwest of the Five Mile Campground (five miles northwest of the Yukon River), the highway runs over a series of steep hills, which truckers gave names like ‘rollercoaster’ in the early years of the pipeline.

The Bureau of Land Management brochure states under the heading ‘Ultimate Road Adventure’: “The Dalton Highway is a rough, industial road that begins 84 miles / 134 km north of Fairbanks and ends 414 miles / 662 km further north in Deadhorse, the industrial camp at Prudhoe Bay. It provides a rare opportunity to traverse a remote, unpopulated part of Alaska to the very top of the continent. Traveling this farthest-north road involves real risk and challanges.“