Dead Horse Alaska is essentially a camp for a huge oil patch at the end of a long road.

A matter of fact, the road is as far north as you can drive in North America.

It's located about 250 miles or 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, so it's up there.

And at first, that name, Dead Horse, sounds as if there's some history behind it, like an origin story.

You know, like those epic stories told of life in the north.

It's easy to imagine perhaps an explorer who maybe rode a horse all the way to the Arctic Ocean and the horse couldn't take it any longer

and died on the icy shores of the Arctic and there the explorer died along with the

horse because he lost his transportation.

That's a great story.

But in reality, Dead Horse is almost an arbitrary name.

It really is an arbitrary name because there's some indications

that it comes from a trucking company that built the airport runway.

The trucking company was called Dead Horse Hallers.

But Dead Horse Hallers doesn't have an origin story either.

The fact is, Dead Horse Alaska is nothing more than an oil patch camp at the end of a long road at the Arctic

Ocean. So why all the fuss? Why has it become a destination for motorcyclists?

Well, not to mention loads of other tourists and

RVs and cars and bicycles, every other way you can imagine traveling.

Well I think there's a few reasons. First, it's at the end of the road, so to speak. And who cares why? It's exciting to go to the end of the road to see what's there, isn't it? I mean, that's an exciting thing to do. You don't see that very often. It's also the beginning or the end,

depending on which way you like to travel north or south for the Pan American Highway,

which runs between Dead Horse Alaska and Usoya, Argentina.

By the way, many people that I talk to say that it's better to go north to south

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