Part 4 | Motorcycle Riding Alaska's Seward Highway - National Scenic Byway

My favorite motorcycle road of all time is from Anchorage to Seward on Alaska's Seward Highway. This is Part 4 of the Seward Highway series. Back on the Seward Highway, about 60 miles out of Anchorage the route takes a turn away from Turnagain Arm and climbs into the mountains of the Kenai Penninsula. Turnagain Pass is the high point, a classic alpine meadow landscape locked between jagged peaks (top photo). The elevation is just under 1000 feet: While you can expect to see snow drifts on the side of the road into June, the Highway itself should be free of snow May - September unless a late spring storm has recently passed through.

A few miles after motorcycling out of the pass are bridges high over Granite Creek and Canyon Creek (middle photo). The road travels sweeping turns through the mountains, eventually coming to the junction of the spur road to Hope. This must-see side trip is a smooth, motorcycling touring gem that winds 16 scenic miles along a river valley until it reaches the south side of Turnagain Arm. Gold fever raged during the early 1900's in the towns of Sunrise and Hope (bottom photo), and still infects some today.

Check back later to Motodometer for Part 5 of this post.