| The famed Alaska Highway, long considered an
epic in road building, has come a long way since it was completed
in just over eight grueling months back in 1942.Started as a
wartime measure designed to provide a land route for war material
and equipment to Alaska from the Canadian provinces and American
States, the Alaska Highway was punched through more than 1,500
miles of mountains, muskeg and mosquiotes.
For six hundred miles the Alaska Highway traverses the nothern
part of British Columbia, one of only two roads through a
sweep of wilderness as large as England and Scotland. Names
on the map are often little more than service stations with
cafe and rooms attached. Some have campgrounds and stores.
A few are remodeled construction camps, but the rooms are
clean , the food is good, and the people friendly. Northern
hospitality is special.
This is the road trip of a lifetime. Heading north to Alaska
and Canada's Yukon, you will follow the same roads taken by
Jack London, Wyatt Earp, Robert Service and the famed - although
imaginary - Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. Prestigious company,
to say the least. View Alaska Highway
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