The Steese Highway is a highway in the Alaska Interior that extends northward from Fairbanks to Circle, a town on the Yukon River about 80 km (50 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. The Steese Highway is 260 km (162 miles) long. The first 71 km (44 miles) of the highway is paved and the rest is gravel.
The site of Felix Pedro's 1908 discovery of gold, which resulted in the founding of Fairbanks, is 21 km (13 miles) north of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway.
The town of Fox is at the junction if the Steese Highway and the Elliott Highway, 16 km (10 miles) north of Fairbanks. The town of Central is 205 km (127 miles) north of Fairbanks on the highway.
The Steese Highway was built in 1927. It is named after United States Army General James G. Steese, who had been president of the Alaska Road Commission. It is marked Alaska State Highway 6.
James Gordon Steese was born on January 21, 1882 in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, the son of James and Anna Steese.
In 1927Steese left his public service position because of an injury from bobsledding that crushed one of his legs severely, and retired from the military as well.
During WWII Steese was recalled to public service providing assistance in Panama to the defense of the Panama Canal as Executive Assistant to the Engineer of Maintenance and later became Assistant to the Governor.
the Elliott Highway northwest to Manley Hot Springs, The Dalton Highway ('Haul Road') north to Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay, the SteeseHighway east to Circle City, the Parks Highway southwest to Denali Park and Anchorage, and the Richardson Highway south to Delta Junction and Valdez.
The first 44 miles of the SteeseHighway are paved, it's gravel and dirt the rest of 162 miles to the Yukon River at Circle City.
On -or close to- the highway are Ester, Nenana, Healy, Cantwell, Talkeetna, Willow, Wasilla and Palmer.
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