Sights in Elliot Highway
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Manley Hot Springs Town
The town of Manley Hot Springs may be one of the loveliest discoveries you'll make in Alaska. At the end of a long, lonely road, here's a gem of a town, full of friendly folks, well-kept log homes and luxuriant gardens. Located between Hot Springs Slough and the Tanana River, the community was first homesteaded in 1902 by JF Karshner, just as the US Army Signal Corps arrived to put in a telegraph station.
A few years later, as the place boomed with miners from the nearby Eureka and Tofty districts, Frank Manley arrived and built a four-story hotel. Most of the miners are gone now, but Manley's name - and the spirit of an earlier era - remains. In modern times the town has…
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Manley Hot Springs
Privately owned by famously hospitable Chuck and Gladys Dart, bathing happens within a huge, thermal-heated greenhouse that's a veritable Babylonian garden of grapes, Asian pears and hibiscus flowers. Deep in this jungle are three spring-fed concrete tubs, each burbling at different temperatures. Pay your money, hose yourself down, pluck some fruit and soak away in this deliriously un-Alaskan setting.
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Hutlinana Creek
Hutlinana Creek is reached at Mile 129, and a quarter mile east of the bridge is an 8-mile creekside trail to Hutlinana Warm Springs, an undeveloped thermal area with a 3ft-deep pool. The springs are visited mainly in winter; in summer, the buggy bushwhack seems uninviting. From the bridge it's another 23 miles southwest to Manley Hot Springs.
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Hutlinana Warm Springs
Hutlinana Creek is reached at Mile 129, and a quarter mile east of the bridge is an 8-mile creekside trail to Hutlinana Warm Springs, an undeveloped thermal area with a 3ft-deep pool. The springs are visited mainly in winter; in summer, the buggy bushwhack seems uninviting. From the bridge it's another 23 miles southwest to Manley Hot Springs.
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Livengood
Livengood, 2 miles east of the highway at Mile 71, has no services and is little more than a scattering of log shanties. Here, the Elliott Hwy swings west and in 2 miles, at the junction of the Dalton Hwy, pavement ends and the road becomes a rutted, rocky lane. Traffic evaporates and until Manley Hot Springs you may not see another vehicle.
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Tolovana River turnoff
At Mile 57, where a bridge crosses the Tolovana River, there's an old BLM campground that's no longer maintained, but there's still a turnoff here. The fishing here is good for grayling and northern pike, though the mosquitoes are of legendary proportions.
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Minto
At Mile 110 is the paved 11-mile road to the small Athabascan village of Minto, population 207, which isn't known for welcoming strangers.
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