A rare truck stop attraction on the Dalton
Apr 12, 2021 One relic of Coldfoot's history is the tree-trunk pole, visible in the background. After truckers finished months of hammering together scrap wood from pipeline insulation crates to form the main building, in celebration they raised the pole, "and engraved their names for future truckers and guests to see," says the Coldfoot website. "To this day, the center pole does double duty: as a communications center, crowded with notes for truckers, miners and other folk in the area."Max Heine This piece, published July 23, 2009, has been updated for Overdrive 's 2021 60th anniversary ser...
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