The Dalton Highway is one of the most isolated roads in North America: 666 km of mostly gravel built to service the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, climbing over the Brooks Range and across the Arctic tundra to the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean.
For us it’s the northern terminus — the spot where the van is as far north as the trip ever goes before it turns and points at Patagonia. There are only a couple of fuel stops in the whole stretch, no cell service, and trucks that own the road, so it’s as much a logistics exercise as a drive.
