Alaska Route 7

Alaska Route 7
Haines Highway and other roads
Route information
Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF
Length:	144.622 mi[1] (232.747 km) (in four sections)
Highway system
Alaska Routes ← AK-6 AK-8 →

Alaska Route 7 (AK-7) is a state highway in the Alaska Panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of four unconnected pieces, serving some of the Panhandle communities that the Alaska Marine Highway ferries stop at, and connecting to the Alaska Highway in Yukon via the Haines Highway.

Route description

Main articles: Egan Drive, Glacier Highway, and Haines Highway

According to Alaska's supplement to the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, AK-7 follows^[2]

Major highways in Southeast, including:

• South Tongass Hwy, North Tongass Hwy (Ketchikan)
• Nordic Drive, Mitkoff Hwy (Petersburg)
• Glacier Hwy, Egan Drive (Juneau)
• Haines Hwy, Haines to Border

No other segments are shown on maps.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

The southernmost piece of AK-7 is known as the Tongass Highway, and heads both ways from Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island.

Next is the Mitkoff Highway, south from Petersburg to the southeast point of Mitkof Island. AK-7 also includes the short Nordic Drive, connecting the Mitkoff Highway to the north point of the island.

Egan Drive, part of AK-7, is the main road through Juneau, replacing the Glacier Highway from downtown Juneau to near the Juneau International Airport. Beyond the airport, AK-7 continues along the Glacier Highway past Auke Bay to near Berner's Bay.

The final piece of AK-7 begins in downtown Haines, and follows the Haines Highway northwest to the border with British Columbia. There it connects with Yukon Highway 3, which passes through British Columbia and ends at the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction.

Major intersections

North Tongass Highway, looking roughly easterly as it passes through a neighborhood just beyond downtown Ketchikan.

Borough	Location	Mile[1]	Road(s)
Ketchikan Gateway		0.000	Beaver Falls access
	Ketchikan	15.503	Ferry Terminal Road - Ketchikan Ferry Terminal
		31.700	Dead end
Unorganized		0.000	Dead end
	Petersburg	32.211	Ferry Terminal Road - Petersburg Ferry Terminal
		34.210	Sandy Beach Road
Juneau		0.000	Main Street, Thane Road
		0.679	Juneau-Douglas Bridge
		13.151	Auke Bay Ferry Terminal
		39.009	Dead end (just beyond Echo Cove access)
Haines	Haines	0.000	Main Street, 2nd Avenue - Haines Ferry Terminal
British Columbia border		39.703	Hwy 3 north (Haines Road)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Southern Region General Log, April 25, 2006 (Routes 291400 (South Tongass Highway), 291500 (North Tongass Highway), 294000 (Mitkof Highway), 294020 (Nordic Drive), 296000 (Glacier Highway/Egan Drive), and 298000 (Haines Highway))
2. ^ Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Alaska Traffic Manual Supplement, January 17, 2003
3. ^ Google Maps street maps, accessed August 2007
4. ^ American Automobile Association Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1995
5. ^ Gousha Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1996
6. ^ Rand McNally Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1998
7. ^ MapQuest.com, Inc., National Geographic Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico, 2001