But, be warned, almost the entire highway runs through excessively high traffic areas.
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3. Dalton Highway in Alaska
The James W. Dalton Highway, known as the Dalton Highway, or Alaska Route 11, is a 414 mile (666 km) road up north in Alaska.
It begins in Fairbanks and ends at Deadhorse, near the Arctic Ocean. It was built primarily to service the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in 1974.
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What make this road so bad is how it meanders and winds through the mountains of the Brooks Range, where America’s lowest temperature was recorded in 1971, minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit!
To add to the issues it was opened to tourist in 1994. Usually 2 times a day helicopters patrol, looking for breakdowns and accidents. There is just one actual fuel stop located at the halfway point, in Coldfoot.
4. Highway 2 in Montana
US Route 2 runs east and west for almost 2,571 miles (4,138 km) across the northern part of the United States.
Though technically it has been broken up by other interstate highway systems and actually connects with various Canadian highways. A section of it dates all the way to the 1926 highway plan.
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According to the University of Minnesota, it has the highest fatality rate of any other region. Two of the greatest concerns are the weather and the vast open spaces.
