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Photo Credit: Timothy J. Pasch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pictured above is the Yukon River Camp gas station, the only refueling station between Fairbanks and Coldfoot, Alaska, each over 100 miles away. This station plays a vital role when traveling along the infamously challenging Dalton Highway, especially during winter months that bring limited daylight and severe weather conditions. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zooming in, you can see the price of gas in this extremely remote area: $7.49 per gallon. This crucially important station allows our teams including UND RIAS, UND Geologists from CEM, and geospatial researchers from the UND Arctic Lab, to successfully gather data from our various geological field sites.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks in part to the fuel, food and lodging at the superbly managed Yukon River Camp<\/a><\/span>\u00a0we were able to gather and process a complete LiDAR point cloud of the entirety of the Dalton and Steese Highways, a superb dataset contributing to UND Arctic’s time-series predictive visual analytics research.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gas Prices at Yukon River Camp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dalton Highway. Photo Credit: Yukon River Camp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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