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Chicken, Alaska - August 2023 There isn’t much at Chicken, Alaska, except an RV Camp, a metal chicken sculpture, and an abandoned gold dredge. This particular dredge was brought in to dredge Chicken Creek. The town of Chicken was its support base. The gold wasn’t as plentiful as expected and the dredge was abandoned. The current owners give regular tours of the dredge. The supposedly true story of how Chicken, Alaska got its name was that the man who held the mining claims went to register them and the town. He was going to name the town Ptarmigan– a small wild bird in the Yukon/Sub Arctic area– but he didn’t know how to spell it, so he just put down “Chicken.” MWM

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Road to Nowhere - August 2023 The road from Chicken, Alaska, to Tok, Alaska, gets rather long and lonely. At one point the straight gravel road seemed to go to nowhere. The illusion made a very good image. MWM

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Mount Fairplay - August 2023 Mount Fairplay is about half-way between Chicken and Tok, Alaska. There is a pullout with a very good view of Mount Fairplay. Unlike most of the mountains on our trip, this one is totally covered with grass and trees and makes a very good image. MWM

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Top of the World Highway - August 2023 To get from Dawson, Yukon Territories, to Chicken, Alaska, you travel across the Top of the World Highway and pass through the northernmost and highest port of entry into the United States. The view is spectacular even if the road is gravel for most of the way. MWM