The highway originated as the Palmer Road in the 1930s, to reach the agricultural colony at Palmer.
The bridge along the Glenn Highway north of Anchorage, Alaska, where Bondsteel died in a freak traffic collision, is also named in his honor.
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Bondsteel died on the Knik River bridge of the Glenn Highway in 1987 when a trailer full of logs came unhooked from the transport which was pulling it and slammed into the front of his AMC Spirit.
The original alignment and name of the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska; extant segments parallel today's highway
highway | Glenn Miller | state highway | Princes Highway | John Glenn | Alaska Highway | Trans-Canada Highway | Glenn Beck | Jefferson Highway | Glenn Ford | Glenn L. Martin Company | New Zealand State Highway 1 | Highway to Heaven | Glenn Hughes | Glenn Danzig | Glenn Close | Mexican Federal Highway | Federal Highway Administration | Glenn Beck Program | Glenn Scobey Warner | California Highway Patrol | New Zealand State Highway 6 | Minnesota State Highway 55 | Lincoln Highway | Glenn McGrath | Glenn Branca | Stuart Highway | Hume Highway | Glenn Hoddle | Federal Highway |
Much of its length is paralleled by the paved Old Glenn Highway and the paved (as of 2000) Knik River Road, along which can be found the community of Knik River.