1955 Map of Mt. Hayes D-3

About this map

The Alaska Highway cuts a sharp diagonal through this subarctic interior landscape, serving as the primary corridor of human passage through the Tanana Valley area in the mid-1950s. To the south, the terrain rises abruptly into the high, glaciated terrain of the Granite Mountains, where steep peaks like Panoramic Peak and the sharp Jagged Ridge dominate the horizon. Between the mountains and the highway, the Boulder Plateau creates a high bench of land drained by a network of north-flowing glacial meltwater streams, including Hajdukovich Creek and Granite Creek.