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Valdez Trail Copper Bluff Segment

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Nearest city
  
Copper City, Alaska

MPS
  
Valdez Trail MPS

Opened
  
1900

Added to NRHP
  
12 February 1998

Built
  
1900 (1900)

NRHP Reference #
  
98000077

Area
  
2 ha

The Valdez-Trail-Copper Bluff Segment is an historic early trail in southern Alaska. It is a section of unpaved roadway, eight to ten feet in width, that extends roughly northward from milepost 106.5 of the Richardson Highway, between Copper Center and Glennallen. It is a rare surviving segment of the original Valdez Trail, the first major road built in Alaska, which extend 700 miles (1,100 km) from Valdez into the Alaskan interior. This segment was constructed in 1900 by the Alaska Road Commission, and is now within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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Valdez Trail-Copper Bluff Segment Wikipedia


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