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mile 50.7/km 81.6 Tiekel River Bridge.
mile 47.9/km 77.1 Large paved rest area by Tiekel River, covered picnic tables, toilets. Viewpoint and information sign for Mount Billy Mitchell.
mile 46.9/km 75.5 Tiekel River Bridge and parking.
mile 45.6/km 73.4 Stuart Creek, parking just north of bridge.
mile 43.3/km 69.7 Large parking area.
mile 42.2/km 67.9 Parking.
mile 37.3/km 55.5 Tsaina River
Bridge and parking at south end of bridge.
mile 30.1/km 48.4 Large parking area with good view of Worthington
Glacier. There are several places to pull off over the next couple of miles and view this spectacular scenery.
mile 28.7/km 46.2 Worthington Glacier and Worthington Glacier
State Recreation Site. Viewing shelter with interpretive displays, picnic shelters, trails, and toilets (no overnight camping). Public telephone.
mile 27.5/km 44.3 Good
view of 27 Mile Glacier if you are heading towards Valdez.
mile 27/km 43.5 Highway Maintenance Camp, no public facilities.
mile 26/km 41.8 Thompson Pass. 2,678 ft. Historical sign sketches history of early-day travel on this route. Airstrip.
mile 25.7/km 41.5 Parking with view. Keystone Glacier can be seen on
a clear day.
mile 25.5/km 41 Parking.
mile 24.4/km 39.3 Parking. Marshall Pass. During the winter of 1907 a 140-ft. steamboat was carried
piece-by-piece on horse-drawn sled to the Copper River, 31 miles east.
mile 24.3/km 15 Parking.
mile 24.1/km 38.8 Blueberry Lake State Recreation
Site. Access by 1 mile side road. 25 camp sites, picnic shelter, water, toilets, and trails. Grayling in both lakes.
mile 23.6/km 38 Loop road to Thompson Lake, Blueberry Lake
and campground. Parking.
mile 23.4/km 37.7 Parking with view.
mile 23/km 37 Parking with view.
mile 21.5/km 34.6 Parking.
mile 18.7/km 30 Sheep Creek.
mile 18/km 29 Parking on both sides of highway, telephone.
mile 16.4/km 26.4 Lowe River and bridge.
mile 15.9/km 25.6 North end of Keystone Canyon.
mile 15.4/km 24.8 Lowe River Bridge, parking at bridge. Historical sign.
mile 14.8/km 23.8 Lowe River Bridge. Old Railroad Tunnel. Historical
sign describes hand-cut tunnel started in 1905. This tunnel was described in Rex Beach's novel, The Iron Trail.
mile 13.9/km 22.3 Bridal Veil Falls, Keystone Canyon.
Large parking area.
mile 13.4/km 21.6 Horsetail Falls. Welcome to Valdez sign and area map, large parking area.
mile 12.9/km 20.7 South end of Keystone Canyon.
mile 11.6/km 18.7 Parking.
mile 7.3/km 11.7 Lowe River.
mile 4.7/km 7.6 Access to Robe River.
mile 4/km 6.4 Parking beside Lowe River.
mile 3.3/km 5.3 Robe Lake Road. Robe Lake Recreation Area. Floatplane base, and picnic area reached by 1/2-mile gravel road.
mile 2.8/km 4.5 Dayville Road. leads 5.7 miles to Port of Valdez.
extends to south side of Valdez Arm, tank farm and docks for the 800 mile-long Trans-Alaska pipeline. No public access.
mile 2.5/km 4 Valdez MemorialCemetery.
mile 2.4/km 3.9 Parking.
mile 1.7/km 2.7 City of Valdez Gold Fields Complex.
mile .9/km 1.4 Valdez Glacier Stream.
mile 0 Old Valdez Town site. If you are heading towards Valdez continue
straight ahead (4 miles) to the new City of Valdez, which was rebuilt after the devastating earthquake of 1964.
This marks the end of the Richardson Highway. It is 3.5 miles to the new town site of Valdez, Alaska.
mile 3.4 Access road to airport (west) 1 mile. Valdez Glacier
Campground (2 miles) 101 camp sites, water, toilets and fire pits. Fee area.
To the east is the Port of Valdez. The Mineral Creek Loop Road returns to the Richardson Highway at
mile 2.2.
mile 2.2 Mineral Creek Loop Road returns to the Richardson Highway at mile 3.4. Access road to Port of Valdez and container terminal.
mile 1.9 Parking.
mile 1.2 Parking.
mile .9 Parking at Crooked Creek salmon spawning area. Observation
platform. Chucagh National Forest Information Center.
mile .4 Parking with information Kiosk.
mile 0 Valdez Alaska
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