Alaska Route 7
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| South / North Tongass Highway Mitkof Highway / Nordic Drive Egan Drive / Glacier Highway Haines Highway |
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| Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF | ||||
| Tongass Highway segment | ||||
| Length: | 37.1 mi (59.7 km) | |||
| South end: | Dead end near Ketchikan | |||
| Major junctions: |
 Alaska Marine Highway in Ketchikan |
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| North end: | Dead end near Ward Cove | |||
| Mitkof Highway segment | ||||
| Length: | 34.21 mi (55.06 km) | |||
| South end: | Dead end on Mitkof Island | |||
| Major junctions: |
Alaska Marine Highway in Petersburg
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| North end: | Sandy Beach Road in Petersburg | |||
| Egan Drive / Glacier Highway segment | ||||
| Length: | 39.01 mi (62.78 km) | |||
| South end: | Franklin Street in Juneau | |||
| Major junctions: |
Juneau-Douglas Bridge in JuneauAlaska Marine Highway in Juneau |
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| North end: | Dead end in Juneau | |||
| Haines Highway segment | ||||
| Length: | 39.7 mi (63.9 km) | |||
| South end: | Front Street in Haines | |||
| North end: | Haines Highway on the Alaska—British Columbia border | |||
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| Boroughs: | Ketchikan Gateway, Unorganized, Juneau, Haines | |||
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Alaska Route 7 (abbreviated as AK-7) is a state highway in the Alaska Panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of four unconnected pieces, serving some of the Panhandle communities at which the Alaska Marine Highway ferries stop, and connecting to the Alaska Highway in Yukon via the Haines Highway.
According to Alaska's supplement to the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, AK-7 follows (from south to north):
No other segments are shown on maps.
The Alaska Marine Highway ferry service connect the segments, but the ferry ports are for most parts not located at the endpoint of each segment, so many of the endpoints are dead ends.
The southernmost piece of AK-7 is known as the Tongass Highway, and heads both ways from Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island. The ferry service calls at Ketchikan. Within the city of Ketchikan, it's signed as Tongass Avenue from the northern city limits at the airport ferry terminal to the Newtown neighborhood, then continuing through downtown as, successively, Water, Front, Mill and Stedman streets, before becoming the Tongass Highway again after passing Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.
Another section of AK-7 is the Mitkoff Highway, traveling south from Petersburg to the southeast point of Mitkof Island. AK-7 also includes the short Nordic Drive, connecting the Mitkoff Highway to the north point of the island. The ferry service calls at Petersburg.
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