Starting in Dawson Creek, BC, this highway is suitable for all vehicles and popular with RV travellers, with enough towns, services and sights to make your road trip a breeze. Iconic and formidable, with its own monument to boot, the Alaska Highway is an engineering marvel, an historic journey, and your most direct gateway to the Alaska. Regardless of rumors, tourists cannot get to the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay (where all the oil is).Dawson Creek BC to Delta Junction AK – 1,387 miles You will definitely set foot inside the Arctic Circle but usually cannot put your finger in the Arctic Ocean because the ice is still out a few miles. You land, they have a guided tour of Barrow (town of about 5,000) and you fly back. One really unusual tourist thing is you can get a one-day flight to Barrow (on the Arctic Ocean) from Fairbanks and back. Just plan to relax and be a casual tourist here.
Fairbanks will be your first true tourist destination in the state. We have done most/all of them and will do some (but not all) again. Check my Alaska book (“RVing to Alaska”) for things to see here. Fairbanks is one of our favorite places in the state. We enjoy the area immensely so staying about a week there is not a problem for us. So it is ideal to plan to stay a week in Fairbanks to see the area and it will take this long. You will need a campground after several days of boondocking and time to recover from the days of driving. Make reservations for Fairbanks as the campgrounds get busy. There’s lots of restaurants, tons of touristy stuff to see/visit ranging from the original pipeline (you can walk around and actually touch it) to panning for gold to feeding caribou and seeing musk ox.
You may want to boondock around Delta Junction depending on road construction and/or reservations in Fairbanks.įairbanks is a great town (small city with a small-town feel). Start the real “tour” of Alaska in Fairbanks.ĭelta Junction is only 100 miles from Tok AND it’s another 100 miles to Fairbanks. The next town, North Pole, is a good place to take a picture of the sign in front of the Post Office. The end of the Alaska Highway and visitor center is in Delta Junction and worth seeing. Get on the Glenn Highway through North Pole and into Fairbanks. Going up, head north from Tok (staying on the Alaska Highway) through Delta Junction. Some campgrounds in Alaska will let you wash your coach at your site. The coach (and car) will get really filthy with rarely a place to clean it. This will cost a few bucks but will be a necessary and worthwhile effort. It will also be your first opportunity to spray down your RV and engines with a high-pressure wash at that fuel stop. Unless you really need a campground, just ask at some of the businesses there (like the restaurant or gas station) because the campgrounds here are like the rest – truly basic – no frills – even at about $50.00/night.
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There is really not much in Tok but fuel, a decent restaurant or two, and a couple of basic campgrounds plus there is nothing between the US border and Tok. It’s a convenient stop and your first chance to buy the less expensive US fuel. I recommend you plan for one night in Tok.
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