A Look Back at the Sunny Point Intersection Highway Project

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A Look Back at the Sunny Point Intersection Highway Project

Southbound: Mountainside Estates in the background. Mt. Juneau at the upper right.

Southbound: Mountainside Estates in the background. Mt. Juneau at the upper right.

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Northbound: Chilkat Mountains in the distance, Sunny Drive is on the left.

Northbound: Chilkat Mountains in the distance, Sunny Drive is on the left.

The New Sunny Point Intersection was opened to the public with
unrestricted vehicular traffic, Thursday afternoon, November 6, 2008.

The project built the first diamond interchange in Juneau and consisted of:

  • A diamond interchange that raised Egan Drive
    over a new access road that connects to Glacier
    Highway next to the west end of the new Walmart
    store parking lot.

  • A traffic signal at the intersection of the
    new access road with Glacier Highway.

  • Access to Sunny Point via a separate underpass,
    crossing under Egan Drive about 300 feet
    west of the original Sunny Drive intersection.

State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Project Link

Pictures by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 10:53 – 10:55 a.m. ADT, May 18, 2007, © 2008

4 Thoughts to “A Look Back at the Sunny Point Intersection Highway Project”

  3. I love all your pictures.I am a regular visitor to your site. I live in Oregon but spent many formative years in Juneau. We lived on Goldbelt Avenue above what we called Evergreen Bowl now called Cope Park. One of my memories is my dad and our neighbor would fill the tennis court with water ( they were volunteer firefighters) and make a skating rink.I am not even sure if there still is a tennis court. I do plan to visit again. But Thank you.

  4. Thank you Mr. Peters. Goldbelt Avenue was (still is) one of my favorite streets in town, ever since I first “discovered” it as a teenager in the mid-70’s.

    I still call it Evergreen Bowl, to me it describes the place much better.

    Thanks for the memory! I hadn’t known there was skating there or I may have known and just not paid much attention. The tennis court is still there but as far as I know they haven’t flooded it for skating in a long time. People now skate on Mendenhall Lake, Twin Lakes (between Glacier Hwy. and the the freeway between Salmon Creek and Vanderbilt Hill), and most importantly at the ice rink in Douglas built a few years ago.

    Hope you do visit again someday.

    David Kent

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