To experience the location of the beginning of the Klondike Gold Rush, you should take a trip to Dawson City, Yukon Territory. You can learn about the origin and development of Dawson City from the town’s Walking Tour, but to find out about the actual beginning... 
Our plans called for driving directly from Dawson City, YT to Tok, AK via the Top of the World Highway, a distance of only 186 miles. We decided to check out the views from the Top of the World Highway using our Jeep on the day before our intended departure, and it’s... 
Road Conditions Remember in part one when I said how good the road was? Well, now I found exactly where the Alaska Highway is notorious for having poor road quality: from Destruction Bay, YT to Tok, AK, the section with permafrost. The reason it’s so hard to keep an... 
The Dempster Highway runs 460 miles from the Klondike Highway south of Dawson City, through the Tombstone Territorial Park, the Arctic Circle, and into the Northwest Territory to the town of Inuvik. The highway is described as a well-maintained gravel highway. From... 
The Klondike Highway, also known as Highway 2, in it’s entirety runs from Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon Territory. We travelled the North Klondike Road from it’s junction with the Alaska Highway, just west of Whitehorse to Dawson City which covers 323 miles.... 
History As I discovered while planning this trip, the Alaska Highway was first constructed in 1942 by the U.S. Army in order to transport supplies and defend Alaska from Japan. The Alaska Highway runs from Dawson Creek (the town in British Columbia, not the TV show)... 
