Back in 1982 or so I traveled Hwy 57 from the south pulling a travel trailer. I came across a BLM truck that had yards of barbed wire wrapped around the rear axle. I had a chain cutter along and we got it free in short order. I asked: How did that happen?” The answer: “The people that live along this road don’t want tourists using it!”
Be aware of local IBWD’s. (IBWD = Improvised Barded Wire
Devices)
We went in ‘93. Good thing that didn’t happen to us or we’d have been stuck for a good long while ! As I recall, we could barely do maybe 12 or so MPH on the road (you can go faster than that on a gravel drive).
Navajos aka Apaches ...Athabaskan speakers also living in Alaska