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.
And then there are the buffalo. The herd the government released in the 1920s never left — it roams free on the Delta Bison Range to this day, a few hundred animals strong, and it's the reason the town was once called Buffalo Center and why a bison silhouette still feels like the truest emblem of the place. Between the highway's end, the free-roaming herd, the old roadhouses, and the valley farms, Delta Junction has a stack of genuinely Alaskan identities most towns its size could never claim — earned at the end of the longest road on the continent.
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.
