Follow our adventure To Alaska

We will travel on our own from Fort Mill to Dawson Creek in the Yukon. Dawson is "mile zero" of the Alcan Hwy.

The attack on Pearl Harbor and beginning of the Pacific Theatre in World War II, coupled with Japanese threats to the west coast of North America and the Aleutian Islands, changed the priorities for both nations. On February 6, 1942 the construction of the Alaska Highway was approved by the United States Army and the project received the authorization from the U.S. Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proceed five days later.

The official start of construction took place on March 8, 1942 after hundreds of pieces of construction equipment were moved on priority trains by the Northern Alberta Railways to the northeastern part of British Columbia near Mile 0 at Dawson Creek. Construction accelerated through the spring as the winter weather faded away and crews were able to work from both the northern and southern ends; they were spurred on after reports of the Japanese invasion of Kiska Island and Attu Island in the Aleutians. On September 24, 1942 crews from both directions met at Mile 588 at what became named Contact Creek^[2], at the British Columbia-Yukon border at the 60th Parallel; the entire route was completed October 28, 1942 with the northern linkup at Mile 1202, Beaver Creek, and the highway was dedicated on November 20, 1942 at Soldiers Summit.

In Dawson Creek we will join the Caravan of 16 RV's and travel about 4,500 miles in a loop that will take us as far north as Fairbanks, back down along the southern coast, ending up near Stewart - Hyder back in the Yukon.

You can see our itinerary and travel log at the end of this book

Once that portion of the trip is over we will head home, stopping at a few of the National Parks we missed in our "2008 Big Trip"