Delta Junction: This & That

Before lunch, which we ate at the Buffalo Drive-In (good food, by the way), we wandered around to a few places in Delta Junction.

First stop was at the visitor center to see if our “bug jackets” would keep us safe from the giant mosquitoes. We’re still here, so they must have done the trick ;-)

Then, we crossed over to the Sullivan Roadhouse, which was built in 1905 to provide services to travelers on the 386-mile Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. When the trail moved 4.5 miles closer to the Little Delta River, the owners dismantled the roadhouse and moved it too.

Today, the roadhouse remains in near original condition, but it’s not where it used to be. Apparently, the location where it sat is now part of Fort Greeley. Concerned that it could go up in flames during live ammunition training, the cabin was dismantled and choppered by the US Army to its new location across the road from the Delta Junction Visitor Center.Read more