Arctic Removal Services

About Arctic Removal Services

Fairview sits back from the Parks Highway in the flat birch country of the Mat-Su Valley, close enough to Wasilla for the commute but quiet enough that a plowed driveway here often means the only tracks on the road until midmorning. Arctic Removal Services runs the highway-frontage driveways and the short lanes back to the small lakes behind them, working before valley traffic picks up and the packed snow on the road starts to glaze. On a clear morning the mountains show up sharp along the horizon, snow-capped even outside winter, and the crew uses that view as a rough weather gauge — clear peaks usually mean a cold, dry storm rather than the heavier wet snow that comes in off Cook Inlet. Driveways get cut wide enough for a delivery truck as well as a car, since this stretch of the valley still runs a fair number of small farms. By the time the highway traffic builds, the frontage roads here are already down to bare gravel or pavement.