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The portion of the Alaska Highway in Alaska was planned to become part of the United States Numbered Highway System and to be signed as part of U.S. Route 97 (US 97). In 1953, the British Columbia government renumbered a series of highways to Highway 97 between the U.S. border at Osoyoos, US 97's northern terminus, and Dawson Creek.
An additional 19 pump stations moved the refined fuel along the Alaska Highway from Whitehorse as far as Watson Lake and Fairbanks. [2] The final construction cost for the Canol Project construction has been estimated at $134 million (equivalent to $2,319,289,225 in 2023) and may have been closer to $300 million when military personnel are ...
The Canol Road starts at Johnson's Crossing on the Alaska Highway near the Teslin River bridge, 126 kilometres (78 mi) east of Whitehorse, Yukon, and runs to the Northwest Territories border. The highway joins the Robert Campbell Highway near Ross River, Yukon , where there is a cable ferry across the Pelly River , and an old footbridge, still ...
May 25—A long winter is finally giving way to green leaves, long days — and the annual rite of summer road construction. This year, a number of projects could snarl traffic as they remedy ...
The Klondike Highway winds in the state of Alaska for 24 km (15 miles), up through the White Pass in the Coast Mountains where it crosses the Canada–US border to British Columbia (BC) for 56 km (35 miles), then enters Yukon where it reaches the Alaska Highway near Whitehorse and shares a short section with that highway until north of Whitehorse, where it diverges once more to Dawson City.
In the summer of 1899, construction started north from Carcross to Whitehorse, 110 miles (177 km) north of Skagway. The construction crews working from Bennett along a difficult lakeshore reached Carcross the next year, and the last spike was driven on July 29, 1900, with service starting on August 1, 1900.
In 1942 the Keno was used to transport US Army men and equipment during construction of the Alaska Highway. [7] She was retired in 1951 after completion, extension and improvement of the Klondike Highway made road transport the cheapest and preferred method for moving goods and people around the territory.
South Klondike Highway: 133.7 83.1 AK-98 north of Skagway, AK: Hwy 1 southeast of Whitehorse: 2, 3 North Klondike Highway: 524 326 Hwy 1 north of Whitehorse: Hwy 9 in Dawson City: 4 Haines Road: 175.0 108.7 AK-7 at U.S. border Hwy 1 in Haines Junction: 9 Robert Campbell Highway: 583 362 Hwy 1 in Watson Lake: Hwy 2 in Carmacks: 11 Dempster ...