Today Delta Junction is the end-of-the-highway town, proud of its Milepost 1422, its free-roaming bison herd, its historic roadhouses, and its place in the Tanana Valley under the Alaska Range. Its story runs from the Athabascan valley and the 1904 telegraph station through the roadhouse-trail years, the 1920s buffalo experiment, and the 1942 highway that gave the town its name and its fame. Our Delta Junction designs gather that identity into wearable form — the milepost, the bison, the bear, the Last Frontier. Delta Junction — the end of the Alaska Highway, Milepost 1422.
What made the town was the road. In 1942 the Alaska Highway was pushed through as a wartime supply route, and Delta Junction became its terminus — Milepost 1422, where the new highway met the older Richardson Highway running up from Valdez. A construction camp turned into a community; Fort Greely was established nearby in the 1950s; and the fertile valley grew into one of Alaska's few real farming districts, raising barley and hay alongside the bison. Delta Junction incorporated as a city in 1960. Today it's still the place where the Alaska Highway ends and the certificates get signed, a small Interior town that earns its travelers.
Why People Visit Delta Junction Alaska
People come to Delta Junction to finish the Alaska Highway — to stand at Milepost 1422 and earn the certificate — and to find the bison, the roadhouses, and the wide Tanana Valley while they're here. It feels remote, friendly, and distinctly Interior Alaska: the end of the longest road on the continent, with a buffalo herd to prove it.
