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September 16, 2014

Denali road crews juggle access, protection

  • Rick Weibel has spent nearly 30 years maintaining Denali Park Road, which some critics say should not even be there.
    • By WESTON MORROW
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Erin Corneliussen [enlarge]
    Road work leader Rick Weibel waves to a road grader while making his rounds to sites along the Park Road in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve. The two-lane, mostly unpaved road runs for 92 miles between 6,000-plus foot ridge lines.

    FAIRBANKS — The workers on the Denali National Park and Preserve road crews spend their time navigating a narrow path between two imposing bodies.


     
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