Back On The Alaska Highway To Whitehorse

Travel Day

• Tok, AK to Whitehorse, YT via AK-2 and YT-1 (The Alaska Highway)

We left Tok and after a while we saw this little guy alongside the highway, happily eating away at a huckleberry bush. It's a juvenile Grizzly Bear, most likely a two year old.

The results from the many forest fires this season are all to plain along the highway.

The haze in the air is smoke from a few different fires along the way.

This is the US Border Crossing. Please note the absence of a Canadian counterpart. You just keep driving.

You are welcomed to the Yukon, but still no border crossing.

Then, about 30 KM later, you arrive at the Canadian side. Due to permafrost and muskeg, there is no suitable building spot for the port of entry until here. And after all, it's not like you're gonna go anywhere along the way. It's nothing but muskeg.

On occasion the muskeg produces small lakes and ponds. Here is a pair of Trumpeter Swans settled in for the summer.

The Arctic wildflowers are starting to bloom all over the place; purples, whites, blues, yellows, a profusion of colour to brighten the drive.

The weather threatened, and delivered, rain almost all day. It's helping with the fire situation.

Haines Junction is the only major junction, or town, between Tok and Whitehorse. From here you can go south to Haines, AK, or continue east to Whitehorse, YT.

They have this really cool monument right at the junction.

And a while later, we are in Whitehorse, having completed the circle from Whitehorse to Dawson, to Inuvik, back to Dawson, to Tok, to Fairbanks, to Anchorage, back to Tok via the Glenn Highway, and finally back to Whitehorse. We've done the whole of the Alaska Highway along with the Klondike Highway, the Dempster Highway, the Top of the World Highway, the Parks Highway, and the Glenn Highway.