The Steese Highway is a highway in the Alaska Interior that extends northward from Fairbanks to Circle, a town on the Yukon River about 80 km (50 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. The Steese Highway is 260 km (162 miles) long. The first 71 km (44 miles) of the highway is paved and the rest is gravel.
The site of Felix Pedro's 1908 discovery of gold, which resulted in the founding of Fairbanks, is 21 km (13 miles) north of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway.
The town of Fox is at the junction if the Steese Highway and the Elliott Highway, 16 km (10 miles) north of Fairbanks. The town of Central is 205 km (127 miles) north of Fairbanks on the highway.
The Steese Highway was built in 1927. It is named after United States Army General James G. Steese , who had been president of the Alaska Road Commission . It is marked Alaska State Highway 6 .
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