Pipeline

Richardson Highway

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July 10th 2011
The Richardson Highway extends 366 miles from Fairbanks in the Interior of Alaska to Valdez on Prince Williams Sound. This is a very scenic route with excellent views of several mountain ranges, rivers and lakes. It also offers views of the trans-Alaska pipeline, which carries oil 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to the pipeline terminus at Valdez. The Richardson Highway was Alask ... read more

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