

The Nisutlin Bay bridge crosses the Teslin River were it forms a bay, as it flows into Teslin Lake. Teslin Lake is 86 miles long and averages 2 miles across. The Bridge is over 1,900 ft long, the longest on the Alaskan Highway. Teslin means long and narrow in Native people’s language. The Yukon River bridge spans the river at Milepost 867. The 2010 picture was taken at exactly the same spot as the 1967 picture. Notice the the Landrover fender it the lower left of the picture. The road leading up the hill beyond the bridge is gravel, two narrow lanes in 1967. In 2010 it is , counting a turn and climbing lanes,



4 lanes paved.