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The short film Alaska Highway is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Alaska Highway – A Yukon perspective – From the Yukon Archives; Alaska Highway Driving Facts – From the authors of the Milepost; Bell's Alaska – mile by mile description of the Alaska Highway
The Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing (French: Poste frontalier d'Alcan–Beaver Creek) is a border crossing point between the United States and Canada.It is located on the historic Alaska Highway, which was built during World War II for the purpose of providing a road connection between the contiguous United States and Alaska through Canada.
Alaska Route 1 (AK-1) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska.It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage.It is one of two routes in Alaska to contain significant portions of freeway: the Seward Highway in south Anchorage and the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer.
AK-2 (Alaska Highway) in Tetlin Junction: Hwy 9 (Top of the World Highway) at Canadian Border Taylor Highway, Top of the World Highway — — Formerly continued north to end of Taylor Highway at Eagle. [2] AK-6: 161: 259 AK-2 (Elliot Highway) in Fox: River Road in Circle: Steese Highway — — AK-7: 150.0: 241.4 Dead end in Ketchikan: Haines ...
The Milepost is packaged and distributed like a book (2008 edition: ISBN 978-189215431-6), but like the Yellow Pages it includes paid advertising. [2] The original 1949 edition was a mere 72 pages, by 2014 it had expanded to 752 pages, detailing every place a traveler might eat, sleep, or just pull off the road for a moment on all of the highways of northwestern North America.
Alaska Highway: 957.15 594.75 Highway 97 south of Watson Lake: AK-2 at U.S. border east of Alcan Border, AK: 5 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 ...
In February 1942 a road construction gang working in Northern California are summoned to a meeting. The boss of the gang, Pop Ormsby, has been commissioned as a Major in the US Army Corps of Engineers and signs up the entire crew with his two sons, Woody and Steve, gaining direct entry as Technical Sergeants to build the Alcan Highway.
Olli-Matti Oinonen of Savon Sanomat wrote that the film is an open air, atmospheric feel-good road movie: “Alaska Highway is about fixing a truck, of travelling and of beautiful sceneries, but nevertheless director Salmenperä has been able to create magical tension, in which the viewer is wondering, together with Tolonen, whether the old truck will be able to make it in its new task.