Our Delta Junction logo carries Alaska's distressed bear over "1959," the year of statehood and the shared emblem of every Merlin Classics Alaska town. The bear is the Last Frontier in shorthand — wilderness, toughness, the wide Interior — printed black-and-white with the worn look of a crate stamp or an outfitter's brand. What makes this one Delta Junction is the place behind it: the end of the Alaska Highway, the buffalo herd, the Tanana Valley under three ranges. On a tee or a cap it reads less like a souvenir and more like a piece of the Interior — worn plain.
The end of the road — and you made it. Delta Junction is Historic Milepost 1422, the official end of the Alaska Highway, where the famous road finally runs out at the Triangle and the visitor center hands you a certificate for finishing North America's ultimate road trip. It started as a telegraph station in 1904, became a buffalo town when the government turned a herd of plains bison loose here in the 1920s, and sits in the Tanana River Valley under three mountain ranges, where the wind is strong enough to have its own name. This page tells the story.
Why People Visit Delta Junction Alaska
- Get your photo and certificate at the End of the Alaska Highway, Milepost 1422, at the Triangle.
- Visit Big Delta State Historical Park and Rika's Roadhouse (1909) on the Tanana River.
- Tour Sullivan Roadhouse, among the oldest in Interior Alaska, by the visitor center.
- Watch for the free-roaming Delta bison herd on the Delta Bison Range.
- Fish and camp at Quartz Lake, and catch the Deltana Fair in late July.
