How much did Alaska Highway cost to build?
The Alaska Highway, the Alcan Highway, is the 1,523 mile (2,451 km) road to Fairbanks begun in March 1942, completed in October 1942 and officially opened on 20 November 1942 at Soldiers Summit, mile 1061. The LitSite Alaska excerpt from Tricia Brown's The World-Famous Alaska Highway lists its cost as 140 million dollars, and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering says the Public Roads Administration calculated the final cost at 41,350 dollars per kilometre.
Reported project cost
$140 million
Cost basis: 1942
Diego DelsoCC BY-SA 4.0
Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost1942
Project metrics
Key dimensions
- Total lengthLitSite Alaska
- 2451 km
Project record
Opened or launched
LitSite Alaska20 November 1942