Tagged: Chickaloon

King Mountain Lodge along the Glenn Highway

Glenn Highway’s King Mountain Lodge was once an essential stop

The Glenn Highway, which winds along the Matanuska River before climbing over Tahneta Pass to the Copper River Basin, opened in 1943. In the late 1940s the roughly 145-mile section of narrow, gravel-surfaced road...

Navy gambled on Chickaloon coal and lost

  Chickaloon bunkhouse at Alpine Historical Park   Chickaloon is a small community located just off the Glenn Highway, about 75 miles northeast of Anchorage. Prior to Western contact the area was occupied by...

Eureka Lodge has served Glenn Highway travelers since road’s inception

  The original cabin at Eureka Lodge in 2013 The Glenn Highway, which stretches from Anchorage 179 miles northeast to the Richardson Highway, should perhaps have been named the Castner Highway. After all, Lt....