KLONDIKE LOOP / TOP OF THE WORLD HIGHWAY
We will be traveling in Canada/Alaska this summer (2015) in our 34' Itasca Sunova with our towed CRV. Most of the itineraries using this route appear to use it as the way into Alaska, and the ret...
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As Sue Thomas normally points out, if 50-passenger tour buses can travel the TOTW highway all summer, a careful RV driver should have no problems.
We did the TOTW from west to east in August a couple of years ago, The roads were dry and there was very little RV traffic going in our direction. And, if you have any fear of heights while towing, W to E keeps you on the mountain side of the steepest road sections except on the hairpins immediately east of Chicken. Also, we got on the first ferry across the Yukon into Dawson City without any delays.
Weather and road conditions are the biggest complaints some RVers have about their Alaska experience because they don't build sufficient time into their schedules to wait out a storm, a flash flood across a highway, a rockslide, or the interminable highway construction that occur every summer, to say nothing of slowing down for the frost-heaved pavement. So, being flexible enough to follow Sue's advice on checking the weather when you reach Whitehorse, then making the decision on which route to take on your way north, is the best approach.
We did the TOTW from west to east in August a couple of years ago, The roads were dry and there was very little RV traffic going in our direction. And, if you have any fear of heights while towing, W to E keeps you on the mountain side of the steepest road sections except on the hairpins immediately east of Chicken. Also, we got on the first ferry across the Yukon into Dawson City without any delays.
Weather and road conditions are the biggest complaints some RVers have about their Alaska experience because they don't build sufficient time into their schedules to wait out a storm, a flash flood across a highway, a rockslide, or the interminable highway construction that occur every summer, to say nothing of slowing down for the frost-heaved pavement. So, being flexible enough to follow Sue's advice on checking the weather when you reach Whitehorse, then making the decision on which route to take on your way north, is the best approach.
