![]() Lodging at Woodlands Inn & Suites and Ramada Limited ( email) groceries and natural foods at Down to Earth Heath Shop RV/vehicle servicing at Dalex Auto, and Al’s Car Clean & Repair (phone 25). Fort Nelson Heritage Museum is an entertaining and educational stop for the entire family.ĭC 283 Historical Mile 300, FORT NELSON (pop. PROPHET RIVER no servicesĭC 265.5 Andy Bailey Regional Park 7 miles/12 km east camping.ĭC 280 Ye Olde Quilt Shoppe has quilting supplies phone 25 or email.ĭC 281.2 Muskwa River bridge, lowest point on the Alaska Highway at elev. Buckinghorse River Lodge to west seasonal 24-hour public cardlock AFD gas pump.ĭC 227 Historical Mile 233. ![]() Sikanni River Campground & RV Park seasonal gas, lodging and camping.ĭC 173.3 Buckinghorse River Wayside Provincial Park, camping.ĭC 173.4 Historical Mile 175. 99) general store, gas/diesel/propane, camping at Pink Mountain Campsite & RV Park, Race Trac Fuels, open year-round phone 25 or email.ĭC 159.2 Historical Mile 162. The Shepherd’s Inn restaurant (with homemade baked goods), motel, gas/diesel phone 25 or email.ĭC 140.4 Historical Mile 143. Turnoff to east for Charlie Lake Provincial Park camping.ĭC 71.7 Historical Mile 72. Camping at adjacent Rotary Park campground.ĭC 53.6 Junction with Highway 29 to Hudson’s Hope to west. The Alaska Highway monument here is a memorial to 12 American soldiers working on construction of the Alaska Highway who drowned here in 1942, when their pontoon boat sank while crossing the lake. Visitor information is located inside the Pomeroy Sport Centre at 9324 96 Street.ĭC 51 Turnoff for Charlie Lake day-use area and campground. Food, gas and lodging are located on frontage roads along the Alaska Highway and in downtown Fort St. World’s Invitational Gold Panning Championship in August. Visitor information at the Visitor Centre on the Alaska Highway stop and photograph the Gold Panner statue. Also access to Historic Kiskatinaw River Bridge, the original Old Alaska Highway wooden bridge.ĭC 34.4 Peace River Bridge, longest water span on the Alaska Highway.ĭC 35 TAYLOR (pop. Campground is adjacent Walter Wright Pioneer Village.ĭC 17.3 Exit east for loop road to Kiskatinaw Provincial Park (3 miles/5 km) camping. Alaska Highway monument in Dawson Creek is adjacent the grain elevator.ĭC 1.5 Mile 0 Park camping. Mile 0 Post is downtown at 10th Street and 102nd Avenue, Alaska Highway monument is adjacent the grain elevator. CommunitiesĭC 0 Mile O in DAWSON CREEK (pop. Always inquire locally about what road conditions may be like up ahead of you and, in the off-season, what facilities are available, since many businesses operate seasonally. Highway businesses and other travelers are often helpful sources of information for current road conditions. A hard winter or heavy rains can quickly undermine what was good roadbed, while road crews can just as quickly improve a previously substandard stretch of road. That said, it is difficult to predict road conditions on the Alaska Highway. 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. ![]() Historically speaking, however, the Alaska Highway has rarely been closed by any weather-related event, and even then usually not longer than a day.Īll of the Alaska Highway is paved, although highway improvement projects often mean motorists have to drive a few miles of gravel road. It is the tremendous length of the highway, combined with its remoteness and the extremes of the Northern climate, that often result in surprises along this highway. Road conditions on the Alaska Highway are not unlike road conditions on many secondary roads in the Lower 48 and Canada. Watch for wildlife-like these Stone sheep-along the Alaska Highway. From this international border, it is 200 miles/322 km to Delta Junction, AK (Historical Mile 1422), the official end of the Alaska Highway, and 298 miles to Fairbanks, the unofficial end of the highway, at Historical Mile 1520. The Alaska Highway crosses into Alaska at Historical Mile 1221.8, where it becomes Alaska Route 2. From there it continues as Yukon Highway 1, crossing 577 miles/929 km of Yukon to Port Alcan on the Alaska border. The highway travels in a northwesterly direction to the Yukon border near Watson Lake, YT (Historical Mile 635). The first 613 miles/987 km of the Alaska Highway are in British Columbia, where it is designated BC Highway 97 North. The Alaska Highway begins at Mile 0 in Dawson Creek, BC. Connects: Dawson Creek, BC, to Delta Junction, AK ![]()
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