Cassiar

Are you talking about highway 37 or the road into Stewart?

romore wrote:
Are you talking about highway 37 or the road into Stewart?

Highway 37 is the Stewart-Cassiar, the highway into Stewart is 37A, the Glacier Highway.

nevadanick wrote:
Its one of the best highways we have been on the whole trip. Its not that narrow, condition is great so far.

You clearly haven't been to Gnat Pass south of Dease Lake yet :)

explorenorth wrote:

nevadanick wrote:
Its one of the best highways we have been on the whole trip. Its not that narrow, condition is great so far.

You clearly haven't been to Gnat Pass south of Dease Lake yet :)

Is that section still really rough? I was heading North and I remember the combination of frost heaves and dips in the road made me sea sick. Pulled into Boya Lake to rest for a few hours.

It was a fortuitous stop however. The lake was still frozen but only just, a thin mostly transparent layer of ice remained on the water, with the brilliant "rock flour" blue shining through it, like there were pool lights on in the lake.

explorenorth wrote:

nevadanick wrote:
Its one of the best highways we have been on the whole trip. Its not that narrow, condition is great so far.

You clearly haven't been to Gnat Pass south of Dease Lake yet :)

I drove it about 5 weeks ago with no problem. All rough sections are clearly marked so if you take notice of these and adjust your speed accordingly you will not have a problem.

nevadanick wrote:
I drove it about 5 weeks ago with no problem. All rough sections are clearly marked so if you take notice of these and adjust your speed accordingly you will not have a problem.

I recall the road getting rougher the farther North we went in 2014. Is this still the case?

Ancient history yields some strange quirks. In 1983 going north we followed a logging machine dragging a log right in front of us, on the "detour." The mud was everywhere.

daveB110 wrote:
Ancient history yields some strange quirks. In 1983 going north we followed a logging machine dragging a log right in front of us, on the "detour." The mud was everywhere.

Drove an AustinCambridge from Smithers to Stewart in 1972. Pretty crazy muddy conditions near Meziadine Lake. Picked up a young Quebec kid who had a brother hard rock mining at Grande Duke. Partied for about a week in Stewart with his brother and friends.

# 37 from Kitwanga to the Alcan has been "civilized "over the years. It is not the adventure it once was although it still has much better scenery than the Alcan.

Dave

I took the whole Cassiar last summer and it was fine.

We drove 37 in mid-July and had no problems. Couple places with sone heaves, but those were marked. The road from Whitehorse to AK had construction for miles.