Delta Junction, AK, end of Alaska Highway

I actually made it to the official end of the Alaska Highway at Delta Junction, AK, approximately 100 miles south of Fairbanks.

Alyeska pipeline sample of diameter.
Pig - to clean out the pipeline.

Delta Junction was named after the nearby Delta River. Delta Junction began as a construction camp on the Richardson Highway in 1919. It was first known as Buffalo Center because of the American bison that were transplanted here in the 1920s. In the late 1970s, the state encouraged development of the agricultural industry in the Delta area by disposing of more than 112,000 acres of local land for farming purposes. Farms range in size from 20 acres to 3,000 acres, with the average being around 500 acres. Barley is the major feed grain grown in Delta. Other crops include oats, wheat, forage, pasture, grass seed, canola, potatoes, and field peas. There are also small scale vegetable farms, dairies, beef producers, swine producers, bison, elk, reindeer, yak and musk-ox ranches, and several ciommercial greenhouses. Also, contributing to Delta Junction's economy are the military and the trans-Alaska pipeline. Fort Greely is located 5 miles south of town on the Richardson Highway. Deactivated in 2000, Fort Greely was reactivated in 2002 as a national missile defense site. Alyeska Pipeline Pump Station No. 9 is located 7 miles south of Delta Junction on the Richardson Highway.