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Coldfoot, AK - History
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Welcome to the Coldfoot Home page. The Coldfoot Home page provides as much information as possible on Coldfoot. Knowing Coldfoot’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Coldfoot’s Home page, you will also find Coldfoot’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Coldfoot has a population of 268. 75.4% of Coldfoot’s inhabitants are Male, and 24.6 are female. 54.1% of Coldfoot is married and 0% own their own home. Coldfoot’s Ethnic is the following: White(58.6%), Native(41%), Asian(0.4%), Hispanic(0.4%).
Coldfoot is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 34 at the 2020 census. It is said that the name was derived from travelers getting "cold feet" about making the 240-some-mile journey north to Deadhorse. Coldfoot primarily serves as a truck stop on the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay.
North of Coldfoot, there are no services for 240 miles (400 km), until Deadhorse. It has a restaurant and a small number of overnight accommodations (converted pipeline construction camp quarters). Bus tours along the highway typically take two days, with passengers spending the night in Coldfoot. The BLM, USFWS, and NPS jointly staff a small visitor center during the summer.
The Coldfoot truck stop was founded by Iditarod champion Dick Mackey, who started his operation by selling hamburgers out of a converted school bus. Truckers helped build the existing truck stop and cafe. The Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT) has a camp (Maintenance Station) in Coldfoot.The town was originally a mining camp named Slate Creek, and around 1900 got its present name when prospectors going up the nearby Middle Fork Koyukuk River would get "cold feet" and turn around.
In 1902, Coldfoot had two roadhouses, two stores, seven saloons, and a gambling house. A post office operated from 1902 to 1912, then reopened in 1984.Coldfoot Airport, on the west side of the Dalton Highway, consists of a 4,000-foot (1220 m) gravel strip, used for air taxi and general aviation. Coldfoot has been featured on Ice Road Truckers, a Canadian reality television series airing on the History Channel.
The truck stop was first seen during the show's third season. The show, which dramatizes trucking on the Dalton Highway, often features truckers transporting equipment to the oil companies located in or around the Prudhoe Bay area.
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