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The Alaska Highway

The legendary ~2,200 km route built in 1942, climbing northwest through British Columbia and the Yukon toward Alaska.

Punched through the wilderness in just eight months in 1942 as a wartime supply route, the Alaska Highway runs ~2,200 km from Dawson Creek, BC up through the Yukon to Delta Junction, Alaska.

Today it’s paved but still wild — bison and bears on the shoulder, long gaps between towns, and the Northern Rockies the whole way. It’s the spine of our run to the Arctic.

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