Meier's Lake Roadhouse

Upon leaving Paxson Lake Campground, we backtracked to Meier’s Lake Roadhouse to top off the tanks in Elvira. Meier’s Lake Roadhouse is one of those out of the way places that has a story to tell. They sell fuel, will cook you a burger, and on the way out you can pick up a can of soup from their grocery shelves or a fresh baked cinnamon roll (yummy goodness).

The pump for petro is most likely 30 years old or older, you know the kind of pump station that has the internal gears with numbers on a roller. The numbers ‘turn over’ with each dollar and with each gallon pumped.

They have a museum of sorts that is a collection of contents from a long passed Chitina resident. The family decided they would rather share all these wonderful keepsakes with travelers who visit the roadhouse than have them in storage.

Chitina is a small village on the Edgerton Highway, and is located at the western boundary of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. You can reach the Edgerton Highway by driving south on the Richardson Highway past Glennallen.

Today’s goal: make a left hand turn onto the Denali Highway, Alaska Route 8, and see how far we get down the road.

We have all afternoon. 

No timeline. 

No pressure to be anywhere. 

Just traveling down the road.

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