Town road pathway project

We seek funding and support to develop a detailed plan for safe, active transportation through our community. The new alignment created by the Sterling Highway MP 45-60 Project will bypass our town but the existing alignment remains the most important corridor for residents and visitors to access the businesses, residences, campgrounds, public and cultural centers, emergency services, trailheads and surrounding lands.

The existing deficiencies in both active and motorized transportation infrastructure along this existing alignment will remain unaddressed by the MP 45-60 project and will continue to be an obstacle to safe travel for the residents and visitors to the area until the deficiencies are addressed.

We call this the Cooper Landing Town Road Pathway Project and we believe that creating a pedestrian safe pathway along this corridor will serve to better connect residents, visitors, and businesses of Cooper Landing to the public lands that surround them and will help create continuity with the growing active transportation network in Alaska as well as improve the safety of all traffic along this corridor.

Read Our Project Proposal

Click here or on the Problem Statement below for detailed descriptions of the benefits to saftey, economy, mobility, traffic flow, ecology, culture, and health our project brings to this important corridor.

 
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PROJECT FOCUS

The focus areas of this project are the following segments (listed from east to west) which serve to correct the most immediate deficiencies left unaddressed by the Sterling Highway MP 45-60 (bypass) Project:

  • A small section east of MP 45

    • The start of the new Sterling Highway realignment  

  • MP 47-50

    • through the main part of town 

The existing Safety Path running from MP 45-50 has been in continuous use since its 1993 construction, and its condition has significantly degraded.  This pathway should be extended west to allow safe access to federal recreation and subsistence sites. 

  • MP 50-53.2

    • No facilities exist to connect the existing Safety Path to Cooper Creek Campgrounds, Two Brothers Roadhouse, Gwin’s Lodge, K’Beq Cultural Site, or the Russian River Campground the most popular federal recreation site in the area which serves over 150,000 visitors each year.

    • To cross Cooper Creek Bridge, a pedestrian must hop the guardrail, and share a shoulder-less lane of traffic across one of the narrowest bridges on the Sterling Highway before hopping the guardrail again to exit traffic.

  • MP 53.2-56

    • Would complete the link to the new Sterling Highway alignment, approximate location of intersection beyond Sportsman’s Landing.

 
 

Letters of Support and Endorsements

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