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Yukon Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway does not pass through the Yukon.
There is three major highways, the Alaska Highway in the south, the Klondike
highway through the centre of the territory, and the Dempster Highway (unpaved)
connecting to Inuvik NWT.
The Alaska Highway runs from Edmonton, Yukon
through Dawson Creek, BC and Whitehorse (passing alongside stunning Kluane
National Park) to Fairbanks Alaska. The Alaska Highway
was built in one year during World War Two to get supplies up to Alaska, which
was then under threat of Japanese invasion.
The Klondike Highway connects Whitehorse
with Dawson, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers, which is about midway between the Pacific and Artic coasts, and
and about 80 km from the Alaskan Canada-US border.
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The Dempster Highway is a
gravel road connecting the Klondike Highway, just east of Dawson, with Inuvik,
Northwest Territories on the great Mackenzie River delta into the Arctic Ocean. This
road has two ferry crossings, one at Fort MacPherson across the Peel River,
and one at Arctic Red River across the Mackenzie. Travellers should travel with sufficient fuel, food and supplies, and
emergency repair and survival items.
The road north to Inuvik, the Dempster Highway, is similarly rugged. The other
roads in the Yukon are for open summer use only.
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