James Dalton Highway Arctic Coastal Plain Alaska USA

Always looking for oil at areas across the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, the exploration vehicles leave behind their tread marks scarring the tundra. Located at the end of the James Dalton Highway, one will find oilfields where these vehicles reside.

Across the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, USA, tire tracks from oil exploration vehicles near the Prudhoe Bay Oilfields along the James Dalton Highway leave permanent markings behind. These tracks are just a small portion of the scars left across the tundra as gravel pads and oil pipelines weave across the Arctic Coastal Plain, all which belong to the Prudhoe Bay Oilfields.

The end of the James Dalton Highway is close to the oilfields as it was originally built as a supply road to aid in the creation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Today, the highway is considered to be one of the most isolated roads throughout the USA except for truck traffic. Many of the roads at the terminus of the highway are privately owned by the oil business and are mostly used by authorized vehicles.

The Prudhoe Bay oilfields are the largest in the USA and North America covering the Arctic Coastal Plain for about 213,000 acres. Unfortunately, the oil exploration vehicles are not light and the tire tracks take away from the beauty of this wilderness area in Alaska, USA.

Remnant tire tracks mark the passage of oil exploration vehicles across the tundra and leave a permanent scar on the arctic coastal plain

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Always looking for oil at areas across the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, the exploration vehicles leave behind their tread marks scarring the tundra. Located at the end of the James Dalton Highway, one will find oilfields where these vehicles reside.