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Traveling the roughly 1,400 miles of the Alaska Highway is not as risky since paving was completed in 1992, but a road trip on the northland artery (also known as the Alcan) still requires ...
Driving the Alaska Highway -- circa 1946. By Mike Dunham. Published: July 1, 2016. The Cotter and Hayes families traveled the Alaska Highway in 1946 and homesteaded in the state.
When the pioneer road that was the foundation for the Alaska Highway was completed in the fall of 1942, it was heralded as a great achievement for both Canada and America.
Starting and ending in Vancouver and winding through British Columbia, Yukon Territory and a good part of Alaska — including the entire Alaska Highway — his route covered 5,023 miles, plus ...
The road to Tanana is steep in some places and narrow along the entire route to the Yukon River. (Dermot Cole/Alaska Dispatch News) TANANA—A new road connects the Alaska highway system to this ...
The 1,520-mile road through Canada and Alaska is a magnet for adventurous travelers. ' ... the mystique about driving the Alaska Highway is primarily an American phenomenon.
Get stop-by-stop directions for a driving tour of Alaska’s Seward Highway from National Geographic's Ultimate Road Trips. There's enough visual overload here to fill a hard drive with digital ...
March 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of construction on the Alaska Highway. Considered one of the most scenic highways in Canada, the 1,387-mile highway attracts more than 300,000 ...
Oil road. We met our guide, Robert Weeden, on a cloudy June morning at the company’s offices near the Fairbanks airport. It was 56 degrees out, the warmest we’d be for the entire trip.