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DIRECTORY
Highway Information
Alaska Road Traveler
Information Service
Tel 511 or (866) 282-7577.
∑ http://511.alaska.gov
Drive British Columbia
Tel (800) 550-4997.
∑ drivebc.ca
Yukon Daily Road Report
Tel (877) 456-7623.
∑ 511yukon.ca

Alaska Highway passing through the Yukon Territory, Canada The Cassiar is also the access
route to Hyder, Alaska (see
Alaska Highway Services The Cassiar Highway p130), 40 miles (64 km) west
Between the 1940s and the Coming from the US or the of Meziadin Junction, and to
early 1980s, fuel was available Canadian west coast, many Telegraph Creek on the upper
only every 250 miles (400 km) drivers opt to take the Cassiar Stikine River (see p135), 70 miles
or so, but as the road became Highway, which is a shorter (112 km) on a gravel road west
more traveled, more busi nesses but equally beautiful and of Canada’s Dease Lake.
sprang up along the route, and more rugged alternative to the There are several highlights
now there are gas stations Alaska Highway. The Cassiar along the way. The Kitwanga
approximately every 50 miles Highway is entirely asphalt Fort National Historic Site
(80 km). There are also plenty surfaced, but the stretch located at Mile 2 is the site of
of roadhouses and lodges between Iskut and Dease Lake an 18th-century indigenous
along the way, where drivers in Canada contains several fortified village and offers
can stop for a meal or a night’s steep and winding sections. excellent views of the Kitwanga
rest. The towns of Fort Nelson, Beginning at the Skeena River valley. The beautiful
Watson Lake, Whitehorse, River Bridge at Kitwanga in the Kinaskan Lake Provincial Park
Haines Junction, Beaver Creek, Canadian province of British at Mile 227 is good for trout
and Tok all have breakdown Columbia, the Cassiar Highway fishing. Drivers can see huge
services and shops selling runs north for 450 miles jade boulders being cut at Jade
groceries and other supplies. (720 km) before con necting City at Mile 375. Boya Lake at
Whitehorse, which is the capital with the Alaska Highway 13 Mile 397 is known for its clear
of the Yukon Territory, has the miles (21 km) west of Watson aquamarine waters and excel-
most amenities and services. Lake in the Yukon Territory. lent camping and fishing.

•Fairbanks The Alaska Highway
3 Dawson City
Delta 5
Junction • •
Cantwell 9 Mackenzie
• ALASKA HWY (ALCAN) Yukon YUKON
4
•
PARKS HWY ALASKA 1 • Beaver Creek KLONDIKE HWY TERRITOR Y
Tok
GLENN HWY
Glennallen
•
Anchorage 2
• Destruction Bay •
•
Valdez Haines • • Whitehorse
Junction Teslin
• Seward • Watson Lake
• •
Homer Yakutat HAINES CUT-OFF • Skagway Boya
• Jade City • Lake
•
Haines
• Fort Nelson
• Juneau
Gulf of • AL ASKA HWY (ALCAN)
Alaska Kinaskan Lake CASSIAR HWY BRITISH
Provincial Park
Sitka COLUMBIA
•
Meziadin Fort St. John •
0 km 150 Junction
• Dawson
0 miles 150 Hyder • Creek •
Kitwanga •
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