Dawson Creek, BC

Yesterday, Wednesday, we left Jasper, Alberta and drove northwest 330 miles to Dawson Creek, British Columbia. What a great drive - TCH 16 to Hinton, then Hwy 40 north to Grand Prairie, and then Hwy 43 and Hwy 2 west to Dawson Creek. We saw a good bit of wildlife along the way - deer, elk, a moose right by the road, and a black bear.

We checked into the Mile “0” RV Park for two nights. We needed a day of R&R, plus we needed to do some domestic chores - laundry, grocery shopping, motorhome maintenance, etc.

Dawson Creek is where the Alaska Highway starts and it is about 1500 miles from here to Fairbanks, AK - a little over 1100 miles to the Alaska border. The United States obtained the right-of-way from Canada and built the Alaska Highway during WWII and then turned it over to Canada after the war. Construction began in March of 1942 and finished a little over 7 months later in October. Originally it was called the ALCAN (Alaska-Canada) Highway, but somewhere along the way it was changed to the Alaska Highway. Everybody has to take a picture at the beginning of the highway.



Tomorrow we are headed “North to Alaska”!!!