Where is the end of the Alaska Highway? I guess it depends on who you ask. The southern end of the Alaska Highway is in Dawson Creek. The northern end of the Alaska Highway isn’t so easy to define. One thing is sure, the border from Canada into Alaska is not the end of the …
On our Alaska trip, we crossed the Yukon on the Alaska Highway. It has been a wonderful drive on a horrible road. This road has always been horrible. Much of it is a nonstop pothole. This section of the Alaska Highway crossing the Yukon was the hardest to build and the hardest to maintain. Every …
After three hundred miles we are still on the Alaska Highway heading west from Fort Nelson and climbing into the Northern Rockies on the Alaska Highway. The road is getting steep and there are more scenic views of mountain tops covered with snow fields. Wild animals along the road are more numerous and bigger. Views …
After crossing Alberta and northern British Columbia we are now going north on the Alaska Highway heading to Fairbanks. So far the road is great. The Alaska Highway starts in Dawson Creek and connects Canada to Alaska. Before the Alaska Highway, the only way to get to Alaska was by plane or boat. The acronym …
The road is closed and the wildfires are between us and Alaska. We need a route around the wildfires. Our schedule is shot. Campgrounds are closed. The good news is that because we started our reroute around the wildfires near Edmonton, we have options. If this were to happen further north on the Alaska Highway, …
We are crossing Canada going to Alaska and we are having to overcome numerous obstacles along our way. We’ve had trouble starting in and crossing Canada. These obstacles were not anticipated. Most of them we can’t do anything about. Our troubles crossing Canada are the reason we didn’t publish last week’s blog update. Some of …
