Down Turnagain Arm on the Seward Highway. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The Historian204 km · about 135 min · 26 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Anchorage, Alaska
The Origins of Fur Rondy
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Anchorage, Alaska
Denaʼina Stewardship of Turnagain Arm
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Anchorage, Alaska
The Origins of Potter Marsh
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Anchorage, Alaska
The Iditarod Trail's Historic Route
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Indian, Alaska
The Beluga Point Archaeological Record
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Indian, Alaska
The Wilderness of Chugach Park
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Indian, Alaska
The Relocation of Girdwood
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Girdwood, Alaska
The Crow Creek Hydraulic Mine
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Girdwood, Alaska
The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Girdwood, Alaska
The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Seward, Alaska
The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Hope, Alaska
Hope's Gold Rush Boom
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Hope, Alaska
Seward Highway Engineering Challenges
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad's Engineering Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Hope, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad's Engineering Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad's Engineering Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Lauritsen Prospector's Cabin
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The 1903 Founding of Seward
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Sockeye Life Cycle
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Trumpeter Swan's Recovery
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Moose Pass, Alaska
The Wreck of the SS Aleutian
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Seward, Alaska
The Journey of Alaska Nellie
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Seward, Alaska
The Alaskan Moose
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Seward, Alaska
Bear Creek Fruit Wines
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Seward, Alaska
Seward's Marine Research Legacy
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Seward, Alaska
Designing the Alaskan Flag
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.