Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chicken, AK

Population 21 in summer, 6 in winter.
Chicken has three main business. This is beautiful Downtown Chicken. There are no city water, sewer or electricity or phone service in Chicken. Wells, generators, and outhouses are utilized here, with residents providing their own electricity, including the 20 and 30 amp service for RVers at the RV parks.
Chicken was supposedly named by early miners who wanted to name their camp ptarmigan, but were unable to spell it and settled for chicken instead, the common name in the North for ptarmigan. (Ptarmigan is the state bird.)
We had cinnamon buns, blueberry muffins and coffee for breakfast and took a brownie with us for lunch. We stopped here on the way back from Dawson City and had bbq chicken and potato salad with biscuit.

Very enjoyable. There was an rv group of about 15 coaches staying in Chicken for the night and that's why they had bbq chicken on the menu.
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