Permafrost Tunnel Highway Entrance
par Matt Nolan
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Access to the Permafrost Tunnel begins by turning off from the Steese Highway near Fox. The turnoff is marked by a small white sign.
Through this gate is the entrance to the Permafrost Tunnel. The gate is locked as this is a federal ...
There are currently plans to expand the existing tunnel and extend it through the hillside in this di...
These small survey stakes mark the entrance to an extension of the Fox Permafrost Tunnel before drill...
Drilling has reached the 4 meter mark for the extension of the Fox Permafrost Tunnel, being drilled b...
Drilling of the tunnel extension has proceeded to 15 meters. Drilling was done in winter to keep the...
Drilling has progressed to 15 meters in the new extension to the Fox Permafrost Tunnel. The bottom o...
Drilling for the season was completed at about this depth into the new extension of the Fox Permafros...
CRREL Permafrost Tunnel, outside in the parking lot. Visit http://permafrosttunnel.crrel.usace.army.m...
The permafrost tunnel has two branches -- this is the deeper one with lower ceiling. Here you c...
The Permafrost Tunnel in Fairbanks allows visitors to see ice wedges, vegetation, and mammoth bones o...
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S.
