Meier's Lake Roadhouse.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: DINING - Marketing of restaurant - Brief article

Located at Mile 170 on the Richardson Highway, fifty-five miles north of Glennallen and sixteen miles south of Paxson, Meiers Lake Roadhouse was built in 1906 by Charles Meiers, who had originally worked as a cook for Alvin Paxson at the Timberline Roadhouse at Mile 192. According to its website, Meier eventually tired of that arrangement and went a few miles down the way to build his own roadhouse on a lake. Today it is owned by Harvel Young.

The restaurant is open year-round, according the cook, Wiley Koyoti. "The food is pretty basic--open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. [We have] a variety of burgers with anything you want on them," he says. Were not what they'd call fine dining, with candlelight and high dollar wine, but we'll fill you up." Most of the patrons of Meier's Lake Roadhouse aren't there for a delicate meal, but to re-fuel on the way to hunt, snow-machine, or other Alaska recreational activities. Koyoti says their...