An impossibly long single lane tunnel is your only way into whittier and your only way out.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof.
In this alaskan town every resident lives in the same building winter in whittier means one thing.
Whittier alaska is a small remote town 60 miles south of anchorage that is commonly referred to as the town under one roof how small is whittier.
The town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks.
A self contained city in begich towers the harbor in whittier a bustling tourist town in the.
The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.
About 217 people live there and it s.
The alaskan town living under one roof.
Rather than face the cold the people of whittier built everything they needed inside begich towers.
Yet all of it exists under one roof.
Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll.
Claustrophobics need not apply.
They made sure that they d never need to go outside again.
In whittier the 220 residents pretty much all live together under one roof.
The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere.
The buckner building was eventually abandoned.
And not just that.
Buckner and begich towers were at one time the largest buildings in alaska.
The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof.
Like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.
With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by living under one roof.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says.
In whittier alaska almost all of the tiny town s 200 residents live in one building and hardly ever have to go outside.