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Telegraph Creek Road Photo Album
Photos by Murray Lundberg
Highways of the Yukon Territory & northern British Columbia
Mileage points are based on mileposts along the highway.
Click on each photo to enlarge it
Here's the first indication of why it's recommended that large RVs and trailers stay off the Telegraph Creek Road. This 18% drop looks
pretty impressive until you see what's ahead!
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Crossing the Tuya River at Km 76.
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A winding 20% grade at Km 82.
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Day's Ranch as seen from Km 82.5.
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One of the most famous of mountain goat habitats along the Stikine River. Just below the long "cave," you may be able to make out eight goats in the enlarged photo.
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BC's most scenic garbage dump. It's not an official dump, but everything from household garbage to appliances has been dumped down this slope over a fairly long period.
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Km 91.
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After crossing the Tahltan River, seen entering the Stikine River at the bottom of this photo, the road climbs steeply out of the canyon.
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A close-up of the section of road seen in the photo above. It is down to a single track for the climb, with a few tiny pull-outs for passing.
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Historic downtown Telegraph Creek.
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One of the best views of Telegraph Creek is from the cemetery. The village can just be seen
over the lip of the lowest of the series of benches that the cemetery sits on. This view is looking south down the Stikine River, towards Glenora.
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This cemetery between Telegraph Creek and Glenora was first used during the
Klondike Gold Rush, and graves from that era can still be seen. It isn't marked and is off the road far enough to be almost hidden
by foilage, so takes some care to find.
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The Glenora Guest Ranch is the modern incarnation of the Ball Ranch, a world-famous big game guiding operation in the 1950s and '60s in particular.
Here owner Nancy Ball is stacking lumber at the boat landing area on the Stikine River, getting it ready to be taken up to the ranch.
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