Witty Signs Keep Drivers Focused on Tricky Alaskan Road

Photo Credit: CNN Although residents often like to joke that it is, the mosquito isn’t actually Alaska’s official state bird. (That’d be the willow ptarmigan.)

You also won’t see many coconut trees growing in the far north.

Judging by signage along Grande Drive in Denali, Alaska, however, you might not necessarily know those things.

Appearing along the steep, winding ascent to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, road signs depicting giant mosquitoes carrying off human prey and warning of falling coconuts are clearly meant to get a laugh out of drivers.

Just less than a mile long and costing about $1 million to build, the mostly dirt road (some sharp corners are paved) leads to the Grande Denali Lodge.

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