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In this video, we drive the full road to Alaska from start to finish, showing you as we go, what to expect on the Alaskan Highway! Starting at Dawson Creek, Canada, the drive is 1422 miles to...
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We are starting our journey to Alaska this summer and driving the entire Alaska Highway to Delta Junction. We will travel through Canada at a safe, leisurely pace enjoying the country as we...
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- About The Alaska Highway
- How to Get to The Alaska Highway
- When to Drive The Alaska Highway
- Important Things to Know Before Driving The Alaska Highway
- Our Exact Alaska Highway Itinerary
- Dawson Creek, BC
- Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson, BC
- Fort Nelson, BC
- Fort Nelson to Stone Mountain Provincial Park, BC
- Stone Mountain Provincial Park, BC
The Alaska Highway, also known as the Alcan Highway, runs 2,232 km (1,387 miles) from Dawson Creek in British Columbia, through the Yukon, and ends in Delta Junction in Alaska, before connecting with the Richardson Highway to Fairbanks. While a popular drive for tourists looking to experience Canada and Alaska, the road was actually created to prot...
While driving the Alaska Highway is a road trip in itself, you will also have to road trip to get to the start of the highway. The Alaska Highway starts in Dawson Creek in British Columbia, which is on the eastern side of the province, about midway between the United States border and Yukon territory border. And to get there, you can either drive t...
While the Alaska Highway can technically be driven year round, the highway is mostly traveled by tourists between May and September, when it’s snow free! Additionally, many businesses and attractions in this part of the world operate seasonally, so if you’re traveling outside of the months between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend, you mig...
How much time do you need to drive the Alaska Highway?
We spent 7 full days driving the Alaska Highway and it was a good amount of time to be able to experience the road’s major highlights, plus do some hikes that took a decent chunk of the day. At almost a 23 hour drive without stops, you could hypothetically do the drive in 2 long days, but unless you’re driving the Alaska Highway purely out of necessity, the whole point of the drive, in our opinion, is to enjoy its beauty! We would suggest a minimum of 7 days to drive the highway, but closer t...
Wildlife
You will likely see lots of wildlife along the highway, so make sure to stay alert and slow down if you notice any near the road. During our time on the Alaska Highway we saw 17 black bears, 1 grizzly bear, 3 moose, too many bison to count, 3 caribou, 4 porcupines, 5 stone sheep, 1 elk, and quite possibly the coolest of them all…1 WOLF! We saw a wolf walking in the road (after it had tried to approach a cyclist…SCARY!) and after knowing the cyclist was okay, it was a pretty majestic moment.
Bugs
One thing you may hear a lot about when heading north to Alaska are mosquitoes. However, we didn’t find them to be too bad overall. In fact, the mosquitoes were much worse for us in the Yukon Territory than they were in Alaska. This could’ve been the result of a variety of factors, like weather and the exact timeframe we visited. We also did take some precautions that may have helped, which we will share below. We do hear that the more northern area of Alaska, like Fairbanks, has a lot of mos...
Below is our exact Alaska Highway itinerary, with the hours of driving for each day noted, which we hope is a good starting point to hopefully help you figure out how to organize your days driving the Alaska Highway. Day 1: We arrived in Dawson Creek after spending days driving up from Vancouver. Day 2: We spent the morning in Dawson Creek and drov...
You have made it to Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway! Dawson Creek is the jumping off point for your grand adventure and is the best opportunity to load up on groceries, water, use a dump station, and make any last minute adjustments to your rig or get any maintenance completed. It’s here in Dawson Creek where thousands of troops stepped off the train ...
The first big leg of the drive, at least for us, when leaving Dawson Creek is the stretch to Fort Nelson. Along the way you’ll pass Fort St. John, another decent sized town about an hour north of Dawson Creek, and then from there to Fort Nelson you’ll experience just uninterrupted nature. Before driving the Alaska Highway we had read that this stre...
Fort Nelson is the next major town along the Alaska Highway. It began as a fur trading post for the North West Fur Trading Co. and remained a “pioneer community” until the 1950s, when it finally gained electricity, running water, and other modern day conveniences. This will be the largest town before making it to Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory ...
From here you’ll traverse through the Rocky Mountains, yes those Rocky Mountains! This stretch of the drive is home to the Northern Rocky Mountains, which is considered by some to be the northern terminus of the longest mountain range in North America. Others argue that they actually go up into Alaska, but regardless, this stretch of the Rockies is...
One of our favorite stops and portions of the drive on the Alaska Highway was Stone Mountain Provincial Park. This park is more than 25,000 hectares of mountain wilderness, rivers, and lakes, where you can camp, hike, fish, canoe or kayak, and more! And if you’re lucky, you may spot a caribou (or two or three!) while here.
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