A Guide to Alaska-Yukon Highways
Alaska Highway & Canol Bibliography

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Mile 0: The start of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, on June 4, 2004. For more information and photos about where it starts and ends, see this article.

This is the better-known Mile 0 monument in downtown Dawson Creek, and behind it is Alaska Highway House, a combination visitor centre and interpretive centre that's open year-round.

One of the excellent displays in Alaska Highway House shows a member of the 97th Army Corps Engineers, an African-American unit, in his muddy jeep on a section of corduroy road. Author William E. Griggs tells this story in his book The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History

The historic Kiskatinaw Bridge, the last of the original wooden bridges built on the highway. It is accessed by a loop road at Km 27.8. Construction of the bridge by civilian contractors began in November 1942; 534 feet (162.5 meters) long, it curves 9 degrees along its length. It had a weight limit of 25 tons, and the large number of trucks exceeding that weight made construction of a new bridge necessary by the 1970s. This photo was taken on a frosty morning in early October 2002.

Km 33.6: The impressive new Kiskatinaw River Bridge was opened in 1978. The bridge is 8.5 meters wide (28 feet) and 248.5 meters long (815.3 feet). This photo was taken in early October 2002.

Km 51.6: From the hill down to the Peace River Bridge, the community of Taylor, British Columbia, can be seen ahead. This photo was taken during a rainstorm on August 30, 2011.

Km 140: The view northbound as seen in July 1998.

The abundance of pipelines in the region north of Fort St. John help to make it very attractive to moose due to the ease of traveling and better browsing. October 2002.

Wildlife along the Alaska Highway - cows on the road near Wonowon, BC, in early October 2002.

Km 226 (Historic Mile 143): Looking north up the highway from Pink Mountain in early October 2002.

Km 246: The original tote road has been re-routed in many places (in some cases more than once in a single location), and past routes can be seen often. This was the view northbound in early October 2002.

Km 250 (Historic Mile 158): This re-routing of the original road is just south of the Sikanni Chief River. This photo looks southbound in early October 2002.

Km 252: A rainbow brightens up the long and sometimes steep northbound hill down to the Sikanni Chief River, shot on August 30, 2011.

Km 279 (Historic Mile 175): Looking north up the Alcan to Buckinghorse River, BC, in October 2002.

Km 282: Below, one of the major re-routing projects on the Alaska Highway was at Trutch Mountain, Historic Mile 178. The old road went to the right to the top of the ridge at 4,134 feet in order to avoid the extensive muskeg below, while the new highway, completed in 1987, deals with the wet conditions in the bottom of the Minnaker River valley. This section of the old road, about 30 miles long, is still driveable (October 2002).

Looking north from near the summit of the Trutch Mountain section of the old road in October 2002. There's a mule deer on the left side of the road down by the corner.

Southbound at about Km 350 in early October 2002.

Km 451: It surprises most people to find out that the Muskwa River at Fort Nelson, BC, is the lowest point on the Alaska Highway, at 1,000 feet (305 meters). This photo was taken from the highway bridge in October 2002.

The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, located just West of the historic Mile 300 milepost, has a huge collection that should be considered a must-see for anyone interested in the history of the Alaska Highway. This photo was shot on the cold and foggy morning of August 31, 2011.

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