20150628: Day 21, The Alcan-Burwash Landing to Beaver Creek, Yukon
The 28th of June, 2015, was our 21st day of travel. The focus of this video is NOT the abundant and attractive surrounding landscape seen in the Yukon as we travelled down the road, but rather is about a segment of the old Alcan Highway (today known as Highway 1 or The Alaska Highway) itself. My first video about a road!
The segment of Highway 1 from Burwash Landing, Yukon, Canada to Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada remains one of the roughest highways I've travelled thanks to wintertime road upheavals and distortions due to permafrost and other ravages of winter and the seeming inability to keep up with road repairs during the short summer months. The sheer number of ruts, loose rocks, dips, and potholes along this segment of road makes traversing it a navigational challenge.
Watch as this segment of the Alcan slowly morphs from a decent road near Burwash Landing into one that may challenge the mechanical integrity of your vehicle and your kidneys. We've taken over 3 hours of Dash Cam videos and reduced them to 57 minutes of torturous driving experience for your viewing pleasure! This video should put to rest stories as to how bad or good this road really is...and how challenging!
By the time we reached and drove beyond the Canadian Border Checkpoint at Beaver Creek towards Tok, AK we began to see the road morph once again into some semblance of normalcy! A real relief!
This video was captured using a Cobra Dash Cam with GPS. You can see in the video's lower right-hand corner of the screen the local date/time of day as well as the GPS coordinates of our location at the time the video was captured. Watch as the road really deteriorates at around 08:33!
In March of 1942 U. S. Army Engineers began construction on the Alcan Highway (today known as the Alaska Highway, or Highway 1) in response to a need to provide road transportation to Alaska's interior (Fairbanks) in support of the Lend Lease war effort with Russia, as well as to provide for the protection of the Lower 48. It stretched from Dawson Creek (Milepost 0), British Columbia, Canada to Delta Junction, Alaska (Milepost 1422), via Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, a distance of about 1,700 miles. Two teams of engineers built this road, approaching each other from opposite directions. The entire route was completed on October 28th, 1942 with the northern linkup occurring at Beaver Creek (Milepost 1202), Yukon, Canada.
This section of road between Burwash Landing and Beaver Creek is 106.38 miles (171.2 km) long, normally taking approximately 2 hours and 31 minutes to travel...depending! The road begins to deteriorate shortly after traveling north of Burwash Landing, eventually becoming nothing more than a crushed gravel, dirt, dust, ruts and pothole plagued road. Not until reaching Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada does this road regain some semblance of quality that would promise less damage to a vehicle and/or its tires. Beaver Creek, Canada's westernmost community, is also the location of the nearby Beaver Creek Border Crossing for traffic leaving Alaska and entering Canada. The checkpoint for traffic entering Alaska from Canada is another 18 miles up the road heading towards Alaska.
An ultimate destination for folks traveling this section of road is to reach Tok, Alaska, USA...the gateway town to Alaska's northern interior, and the city of Fairbanks, AK. The Alcan Highway ends at Delta Junction, Alaska where it meets the Richardson Highway (Alaska Route 4) and continues the additional 96 miles (Alaska Route 2) to Fairbanks, AK.
It took us from 07:24am to 10:57am, a little over 3.3 hours, on the 28th of June 2015 to traverse this section of road. We were towing our 25' RV trailer on our way to Tok, AK, having left Cottonwood RV Park on Kluane Lake just south of Burwash Landing a short time earlier. Our early departure from the RV park that morning resulted in our arrival at the Kluane Museum of Natural History in time to find it that it had not yet opened for the day.
It got to the point around 08:38 AM that the road was so bad it seemed more of a primitive path than a road. (GPS N61 42.48.3 W139 49.53.4). More than likely it was along here that our trailer bathroom's medicine cabinet became detached from the wall and the roll of toilet paper completely unrolled onto the floor! We encountered clusters of potholes impossible to navigate around. Traveling at speeds greater than 25mph may be damaging to trailer and/or vehicle contents if not the vehicles themselves. There are NO service stations along this route if one should need help or assistance!
We were passed by several vehicles along the way since we travelled at slower speeds than the maximum allowed. We would eventually catch up to these same vehicles which were now travelling as slow as we were. I wonder which bump in the road convinced them to do so? :-)
WALMART & CONTINENTAL DIVIDE | Whitehorse, Yukon to British Columbia Border | S2E83
Walmart and Continental Divide on our trip back to the lower 48. We do some shopping at the super RV friendly Whitehorse Walmart. In this episode we travel from Whitehorse, Yukon to the British Columbia border in Canada. We also have a run in with a wildfire but that's tomorrow's episode.
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North to Alaska 2016: The Frozen Lake [North American Road Trip #113]
This has been a great RV road trip up the Alaska Highway.
Our journey up The Alaska Highway leads us to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. While we are there Rebecca wants to visit Aroma Borealis for some locally made products. The rest of the caravan goes in search of internet and we head to the Takhini Hot Springs to relax for the afternoon. Once we are back on the road we camp for the night on the frozen shores of Kluane Lake.
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Rving Alaska: Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay, Tent Camping on the North Slope
We leave the motorhome behind in Fairbanks and take the truck on the ultimate truck hikes North to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean. In this episode we travel from the Arctic Circle to Coldfoot, Alaska on
the Dalton Highway or what is better known as the haul road made famous by the television show Ice Road Truckers. The trip is over 500 miles long each way on dirt and gravel roads riddled with pot holes, frost heaves and speeding 18 wheelers just trying to make their delivery in the fastest time possible. We got so much great footage we are having to break up the episodes into a several part series so you can capture the road and the beauty that the Brooks Range, the North Slope and the Far North of Alaska holds. In this episode we travel from Coldfoot to our campsite at Galbraith Lake on the tundra of the North Slope. So sit back and enjoy one of our most epic adventures of Alaska yet!
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Film Location: Galbraith Lake, North Slope, Alaska
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