Anchorage | Chena River Ice Road | Department of Transportation

So off we go to the Chena River, which he tells me freezes over during the winter, offering a convenient shortcut for the locals. But even that’s a no go: The Department of Transportation has cut off the thoroughfare with signs and a sizable roadblock disguised as a snowdrift. My host is puzzled, saying it was open as recently as a week ago and that people drive over it all the time. Later that afternoon, I learn why it was closed. A newspaper headline reads, “DOT Puts Brakes on Chena River Ice Road: Popular shortcut hasn’t frozen solid this year.”

And to think he was dead set on driving across it. I told you these people are insane. Of course, that’s meant in the most complimentary way possible.
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