The following morning we left our accomidations at the Tok River Campground and headed north along the Taylor highway into the Mertie Mountain region.
Our destination was the Community of Chicken (infamous of course)! Chicken is a tourist trap of sorts, if you can imagine a tourist trap that is 70+ miles down a seasonal road from the next largerst town of 1000 (Tok).
Chicken Post Office, served twice a week by plane for the 37 year round residents.
The Chicken Mercantile Emporium/Salooon/Cafe. As featured in National Geographic, this is downtown Chicken.
Chicken was the second incorpoorated town in Alaska. Its first residents were miners searching along the 40-mile river for gold. To survive the winters, many of the miners relied on eating Ptarmigan for survival. Many names were suggested for the town but as it turns out, no one could agree upon the actual spelling of "Ptarmigan". So the name "Chicken" was selected instead.
Beware of the Attack Chicken!
No camping on the landing strip! Quent and I found this sign to be hilarious. One wouldn't think that many campers would find a landing strip as the most attractive camping spot, but who knows!
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