Field editors out of the Anchorage office currently drive a truck/camper.Ĥ.
The MILEPOST® field editors have driven a variety of vehicles on road logging trips, from a VW Eurovan to a Saturn, Subaru wagon, Honda CR-V and Pontiac Grand Am pulling a small trailer, to a 28-foot Class C motorhome. You will see all sorts of vehicles traveling the Alaska Highway in summer, from bicycles, motorcycles, vintage and compact cars to pop-up trailers, motorhomes, 5th-wheelers towing passenger cars and plenty of trucks, big and small. Watch for moose.ĭrive what you want to drive, just make sure it is mechanically sound with good tires (and a spare). Both these sections of road have straight stretches interrupted by easy curves. From Tok to Delta Junction, the highway is fairly straight and in fair to good condition, as was the Richardson-Alaska Highway between Delta Junction and Fairbanks. The next 200 driving miles, from Haines Junction to the Alaska border, consists of long straight stretches of improved highway with wide lanes and generous shoulders an improved section that winds along the shore of Kluane Lake followed by and a long, often bumpy, frost-heaved stretch of road-in various stages of improvement-from Destruction Bay to the Alaska border.įrom the Alaska–Yukon border to Tok, the Alaska Highway has curves and grades it was in poor to fair condition in fall 2016. The stretch of road between Watson Lake and Whitehorse, approximately another 300 miles, is in fair to good condition, with easy curves through wide river valleys and along lakes.įrom Whitehorse to Haines Junction, a distance of 100 miles, it is straight road with poor to fair surfacing with gravel breaks and frost heaves. After winding through the MacDonald River valley-few guardrails and watch for caribou and stone sheep on the road-the highway straightens out again for the next 140 miles into Watson Lake, YT. You may experience an odd snowstorm here, even in July. This stretch of road crosses Summit Pass (Historic Milepost 392), highest summit on the Alaska Highway at 4,250 feet elevation. North of Fort Nelson, the Alaska Highway crosses the Rocky Mountains: Expect about 200 miles of narrow road with curves and hills with 10 percent grades and few passing lanes. There’s a lot of straight road the first 300 miles of highway, between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson. Damaged road is usually flagged with small orange flags or cones. chuckholes, gravel breaks, deteriorated shoulders, bumps and frost heaves. Relatively few stretches of road fall into the “poor” category, i.e. Recently upgraded sections of road offer excellent surfacing. Much of the highway is in fair condition, with older patched pavement and a minimum of gravel breaks and chuckholes. The asphalt surfacing of the Alaska Highway ranges from poor to excellent. Road construction is a fact of life here in the summer, although delays are usually minimal. That being said, you will still come across gravel road- “gravel breaks” that are anywhere from a few feet to a few miles long-where road repairs are under way. The short answers are “yes” and “mostly good.” The last section of original gravel road on the Alaska Highway was paved by 1992. Such a trip requires planning.įollowing are the top ten most-frequently-asked questions about driving the Alaska Highway, and our answers.ġ. Whether contemplating a trip up the Alaska Highway, or already packed and ready to go, travelers ask The MILEPOST® many of the same questions each year about what to expect along this pioneer road.Īnd no wonder there are questions: The Alaska Highway traverses a vast wilderness in a remote expanse of North America, from Mile 0 at Dawson Creek, BC, to Delta Junction, AK, at Historical Mile 1422, official end of the Alaska Highway (which is 96 driving miles from Fairbanks, the unofficial end of the highway at Historical Mile 1523).
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