Alaska Highway

After a couple of days in Jasper we finally started for our trip on the Alaska Highway, a total of 1,422 miles (2,288 km) from Dawson Creek to Delta Junction. We want to travel on the Fairbanks, Alaska, and then to Denali National Park with Mt. McKinley or Denali, the highest mountain of North America.

Overall, the Alaska Highway was a beautiful trip, to be enjoyed again on our way back :-) . There are not too many towns along the way, most of them just plain and simple to cater for the needs of the people living in the area. Fort Nelson and Whitehorse, the Yukon capital, were rather nice, but most enjoyable is the scenery, forests, mountains, sometimes snow-covered, glaciers, creeks and streams, it's all there! Endless stretches of seemingly untouched landscape, no power lines, houses or other signs of civilization (besides the road, of course), every now and then some wildlife like bears, deer, elk, moose, bison, wild horses.....

In the evenings there almost always heaps of choice for a site on a state or provincial park. These are much nicer than  the commercial campgrounds, offering a lot of privacy in mostly stunning locations. The only slightly depressing part are the big number of run down or given-up service stations along the road. There must have been a time when it was easier to make a living here from the tourists.
Before we left people had told us to fill up on fuel at each and every location, we might run into trouble otherwise. That was obviously bullshit, at least with a fuel tank the size of  ours (~ 280 liters, good for at least 500 miles or 800 km's) .

 Bald eagle near Whitehorse

Fairbanks, Alaska, is good for restocking on groceries and fuel, and that's it. Ok, they probably have more days with temperatures below 0 Celsius,but still, I wouldn't want to live here. Anyway, its only a short 3 hour drive to Denali, so that's where we go next.

 The end of the Alaska Highway at mile 1422 or km 2288