Mount Spurr lies about 80 miles west of Anchorage, which is Alaska's most populous city, making it one of the state's most closely watched volcanoes. It last erupted in 1992, spreading ash over ...

The road begins in Seward, paralleling the Iditarod National Historic Trail and the Alaska Railroad as far as Moose Pass and reconnects at the eastern tip of Turnagain Arm, ending in Anchorage.

On the roughly 300-mile drive from Anchorage down through this ... most of which lie along the Seward and Sterling highways. On a map, these roads are numbered as Highway 1 and, for the short ...