Introducing Klondike Highway
Beginning seaside in Skagway, Alaska, the 716km Klondike Hwy climbs high to the forbidding Chilkoot Pass before crossing into stunning alpine scenery on the way to Carcross. For much of its length, the road generally follows the Gold Rush Trail, the route of the Klondike prospectors. You’ll have a much easier time of it than they did.
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North of Whitehorse, the road passes through often gentle terrain that has been scorched by wildfires through the years. Signs showing the dates let you chart nature’s recovery.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Alaska- Indian reserves???
by trekker502 13 May 2012
You might have more access to Tlingit Indian villages in Ketchikan and Sitka to see their totem poles, etc. You may also see the totem…
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Re: Quebec south-west across us up west coast to Alaska then back to Quebec
by trekker502 18 March 2012
I lived in Alaska for 15 years and I have driven over most of the main roads, north-south, in Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia,…
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RE: Deteriorated Alaska Highway west of Burwash Landing in YT
by trekker502 11 May 2011
The Top of the World and Taylor Highways open at the end of May, or when the snow is cleared. In February, or thereabouts, there is a…
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