- Tok Cut-Off
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customcommons=The Tok Cut-Off is a highway in the
U.S. state ofAlaska , running 125 miles (201 km) from Gakona Junction on theRichardson Highway , 14 miles (23 km) north of Glennallen, to Tok on theAlaska Highway .The road was built in the 1940s and 1950s to connect Tok more directly with the
Richardson Highway . It was called a "cut-off" because it allowed motor travelers coming north on theAlaska Highway to travel to Valdez and Anchorage without going to Delta Junction and then traveling south on the Richardson Highway, taking 120 miles (193 km) off the trip.It is sometimes considered to be part of the
Glenn Highway (q.v.).Towns and places along the Tok Cut-Off
* Gakona Junction (
Richardson Highway ), mile 0 (km 0)
* Gakona, mile 3 (km 4)
* Chistochina, mile 33 (km 53)
* Slana andWrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve , via Nabesna Road, mile 60 (km 96)
* Mentasta Lake, mile 81 (km 130)
* Tok, mile 125 (km 201)
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