Tagged: McCarty

Alaska Road Commission’s Big Delta ferry – of roads, truckers and tolls

Ferryman’s cabin at Big Delta When the Alaska Road Commission (ARC) was created in 1905, it undertook the herculean task of building roads and trails throughout the Territory.  One of its first projects was...

Rika’s Roadhouse still important fixture along Richardson Highway

Rika’s Roadhouse in later winter 2011 Big Delta—so named because of its location at the confluence of the Delta and Tanana Rivers, and to differentiate it from Delta Telegraph Station on the nearby Little...