Vorlage:Infobox nrhp Rika's Landing Roadhouse, also known as Rika's Landing Site or the McCarty Roadhouse is a roadhouse on the National Register of Historic Places in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is located off mile 274.5 of the Richardson Highway in Big Delta at a historically important crossing of the Tanana River. It is in the Big Delta State Historical Park. The roadhouse is named after Rika Wallen, who purchased it from John Hajdukovich in 1923.

What is now the Richardson Highway began as a pack trail from the port at Valdez to Eagle, downstream on the Yukon River from Dawson, which was built in 1898 by the U.S. Army to provide an "all-American" route to the Klondike gold fields. After the rush ended, the Army kept the trail open in order to connect its posts at Fort Liscum, in Valdez, and Fort Egbert, in Eagle. The Fairbanks gold rush in 1902, and the construction of a WAMCATS telegraph line along the trail in 1903 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, made the Valdez-to-Eagle trail, and its branch to Fairbanks, one of the most important access routes to the Alaska Interior.^[1]

The Tanana River was one of the major rivers to be crossed along this trail, and a ferry became established just upriver of the Tanana's confluence with the Delta River, then called Bates Landing. A roadhouse was constructed there in 1904, and in 1906 or 1909 (sources differ) John Hajdukovich, an enterpreneur from Montenegro, sensed a business opportunity, and purchased and expanded it. Meanwhile, the trail was in the process of being upgraded to a wagon road.^[2][3]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

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• http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/AK/Southeast+Fairbanks/state.html
• http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/northern/bigdeltashp.htm
• http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/units/deltajct/bigdelta.htm
• http://www.rikas.com/roadhouse.html#interior
• http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/alaska/denali-fairbanks-and-the-yukon/review-431163.html
• http://www.ci.delta-junction.ak.us/visitor_guide/museums.htm
• http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/76000364.pdf
• http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/cdmg11&CISOBOX1=ferry
• still image of ferry crossing the Tanana, 1930, Rika's visible in background. (from Digital Alaska)
• Video clip of ferry crossing the Tanana, 1935-36, Rika's visible in background. (from Digital Alaska)

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1. ↑ Kris Valencia: The Milepost 2009. Morris Communications Corp, ISBN 978-1-892154-26-2, S. 465,482. 
2. ↑ Big Delta State Historical Park. Abgerufen am 5. August 2009. 
3. ↑ Historic Roadhouse. Abgerufen am 5. August 2009.