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.
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.
