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===Transportation=== The roads in Utqiagvik are unpaved due to the permafrost. No roads connect the city to the rest of Alaska.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astresystems.com/barrow/ |title=Barrow, Alaska |publisher=astresystems.com |access-date=September 10, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060205164620/http://www.astresystems.com/barrow/ |archive-date=February 5, 2006 }}</ref> Utqiagvik is served by Alaska Airlines with passenger jet service at the [[Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport]] to and from [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]] and [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]]. New service between Fairbanks and Anchorage began from [[Era Aviation]] on June 1, 2009. Freight arrives by air cargo year-round and by ocean-going marine [[barge]]s during the annual summer [[sealift]].<ref>{{cite web |title = About Barrow |url = http://www.cityofbarrow.org/index.php/about-barrow |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20110725173058/http://www.cityofbarrow.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=8 |archive-date = July 25, 2011 |access-date = February 6, 2017 }}</ref> Utqiagvik is the transportation hub for the North Slope Borough's Arctic coastal villages. Multiple jet aircraft, with service from [[Deadhorse, Alaska|Deadhorse]] ([[Prudhoe Bay, Alaska|Prudhoe Bay]]), [[Fairbanks]], and [[Anchorage]] provide daily mail, cargo, and passenger services, which connect with smaller single- and twin-engine [[general aviation]] aircraft that provide regular service to other villages, from [[Kaktovik, Alaska|Kaktovik]] in the east to [[Point Hope, Alaska|Point Hope]] in the west.<ref name=akdced1/> The town is also served by several radio taxi services, most using small [[four-wheel drive]] vehicles.
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