Official State of Alaska Vacation and Travel Information

Home » Destinations » Cities & Towns » Delta Junction

View My Alaska Trip

Interior

Overview
Map
Parks + Attractions
Local Businesses

Delta Junction

Many vegetables grow to enormous sizes in Alaska, like this cabbage

Plan Your Trip

Learn More

Delta Junction has gone by many titles in the past; gold rush town, Bison City, military outpost and the agricultural heart of Interior Alaska to name a few. But most now know it as the 'End of the Alaska Highway,' as it’s here that the famous highway joins the Richardson Highway to complete the route to Fairbanks. This intersection, marked by an oversized white milepost for Mile 1422 of the Alaska Highway, is known as the Triangle. The Delta Junction Visitor Center (907-895-5063) sits at the intersection and greets visitors with a friendly cup of coffee and a certificate proclaiming they have completed America’s epic road trip.

Now an agricultural community, visitors can taste the local produce at Highway's End Farmer's Market across from the visitor’s center at the Triangle or during the Deltana Fair. Held in August, the fair includes livestock, garden and craft exhibits along with the usual fair staples of tractor pulls, food vendors and carnival rides. For a historical view of farming, the Alaska Homestead & Historical Museum, east of Delta Junction on the Alaska Highway is the site of an early homestead farm and a large collection of early farming equipment.

The town is also home to several historic roadhouses. John Hajdukovich built Rika's Roadhouse in 1910. In 1923, he sold it to Rika Wallen, a Swedish immigrant who had managed the roadhouse since 1917. Rika ran the roadhouse into the late 1940s and lived there until her death in 1969. The roadhouse is now part of Big Delta State Historical Park, which includes a number of other historic outbuildings and facilities. Sullivan Roadhouse, relocated across from the visitor center, was originally built in 1905. It is one of the last remaining original roadhouses from the Valdez to Fairbanks Trail and is an excellent free museum of Interior pioneer artifacts.

Today a community of 1,058 residents, Delta Junction began as a telegraph station in 1904 and came into its own during the Chisana Gold Strike of 1913 and when it was chosen in the 1920s for the government’s buffalo importation program.

With about 200 farms today, Delta Junction produces barley, dairy products, hay and potatoes and is home to the 90,000-acre Delta Bison Sanctuary that was created to contain a free-roaming herd of more than 500 animals. All of this within a picturesque rural setting that includes spectacular views of the Alaska Range and the Delta River. On clear days the panoramas of Mount Hayes, Mount Moffit and other peaks are stunning.

Delta Junction

Delta Junction is located at the convergence of the Richardson and Alaska Highways, 95 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The city is accessible by road via the Richardson Highway from Fairbanks or Glennallen and the Alaska Highway from Tok and Canada.

Plan Your Trip

Learn More

Delta Junction

The wildlife viewing of bison and migrating sandhill cranes can be excellent in the Delta Junction area. The best source of information of where and when the species can be viewed is the Delta Junction Chamber of Commerce (877-895-5068).

Nearby Parks

Plan Your Trip

Learn More

Attractions

Alaska Homestead and Historical Museum +

For a historical view of farming, the Alaska Homestead and Historical Museum, east of Delta Junction on the Alaska Highway, is the site of an early homestead farm and a large collection of early farming equipment.
Delta Bison Sanctuary +

In effort to reduce the amount of agricultural damage by Alaska bison, the 90,000-acre Delta Bison Sanctuary was established south of the Alaska Highway. With the aid of binoculars, visitors catch a glimpse of the herd from an overlook at Mile 242 of the Richardson Highway.
Deltana Fair +

Held in August, the Deltana Fair is Delta Junction's biggest event. The three-day event includes livestock, garden and craft exhibits along with the usual fair fare of tractor pulls, food vendors and carnival rides.
Flightseeing Tours +

With spectacular alpine scenery so close, flightseeing tours are popular in Delta Junction. Prime attraction from the air is Mount Hayes, a stunning sight at 13,832 feet and only 43 miles southwest of Delta Junction. Other mountains often viewed on flights are Mount Moffit (13,030 feet), Mount Shand (12,600 feet), Mount Deborah (12,339 feet) and Hess Mountain (11,920 feet).
Frontier Days +

Frontier Days is a three-day festival on Memorial Day weekend that celebrates the rich farming history of Delta Junction with antique tractor displays, hay wagon rides, petting zoo, lumberjack competition and the popular "Kiss A Pig" event.
Highways End Farmers Market +

Located at the Triangle, the heart of Delta Junction, is the the Highway's End Farmers Market where locals display and sell fresh vegetables, jams, jellies, baked goods, buffalo, caribou and elk meats, and many other home-grown items.
Sullivan Roadhouse Museum +

Sullivan Roadhouse was built in 1905 and served travelers along the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail until 1927. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and in 1997 was moved, log by log, from Fort Greely to its present location in the Triangle adjacent to the Delta Junction Visitors Center. Now a museum, the roadhouse displays historic photographs and excavated artifacts in several exhibits dedicated to travel in Alaska in the early 1900s during the state’s "roadhouse era."
Trans-Alaska Pipeline +

For many visitors arriving on the Alaska Highway, Delta Junction is the first place to see the famous Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The best viewing point is Mile 275.4 of the Richardson Highway where the pipeline crosses the Tanana River.