by Richard Quinn | May 11, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Road Trips, Travel
Click Maps and Photos for an expanded view. After a restless night in my funky motel in Beaver Creek, Yukon, I was raring to get back on the road. Fairbanks was only 300 miles away. Delta Junction, the end of the Al-Can, was only 200 miles away, and the border? Twenty...
by Richard Quinn | May 9, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Mountains, Road Trips, Travel
Click Maps and Photos for an expanded view. Most travel guides divide the trip from Dawson Creek to the Alaska Border into four segments, allowing a full day for each. I went a little crazy on my second day, driving from Fort Nelson all the way to Whitehorse, instead...
by Richard Quinn | May 9, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Mountains, Road Trips, Travel
Click Maps and Photos for an expanded view. The sun was up and pouring through my window at 4:30 AM, so I arose early and rolled out of Fort Nelson at 6:00. The plan was to drive at least as far as Watson Lake, 319 miles and about 7 hours away, but clear over on the...
by Richard Quinn | May 9, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Road Trips, Travel
When I arrived in Dawson Creek, I was dog tired from driving. I’d pushed it almost 500 miles that day, all the way from a tiny town called 100 Mile House, where I’d stayed in a cheap motel after crossing the border north of Seattle. According to my...
by Richard Quinn | May 9, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Mountains, National Parks, Road Trips, Travel
For anyone living in the United States, a drive to Alaska on the Alaska Highway is the ultimate road trip, the longest point-to-point journey you can undertake without leaving North America. A lot of people talk about making that drive, but there are relatively few...
by Richard Quinn | Feb 3, 2020 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Mountains, Photography, Road Trips, Travel
One big advantage of travel on the two lane highways is the perennial presence of wildflowers. Roads create clearings, especially in forested regions, with disturbed soil along the shoulders that’s perfect for the proliferation of flowering plants. That makes...
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