Village sights in Elliot Highway

1. Manley Hot Springs Town

   • Elliot Highway, USA
   • Sights › Village

   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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2. Livengood

   • Elliot Highway, USA
   • Sights › Village

   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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3. Minto

   • Elliot Highway, USA
   • Sights › Village

   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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