http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/driving-to-the-top-of-the-world-exploring-canada-s-new-arctic-highway-1.4073615don't have to go to alaska to dip you toes in the arctic anymore looking forward to travel reports ,boon docking and fishing along the way.Short season though

Having flown in that area many times during the summer I can understand how they managed an ice road but that part of the country has more holes (lakes) in it than a Swiss cheese factory. I can’t even begin to imagine how they would’ve laid out the route to make a road in that part of the country.

I read about this new road on a recent edition of the on-line Truck Camper Magazine. A couple from either Edmonton or Calgary, I can't remember which, had traveled up there in their truck camper in the dead of winter! I guess it's a win for the local residents who no longer have to be so isolated waiting for the ice road to open up. It's an all-weather gravel road from what I read. Happy for the residents of long-isolated Tuk.

They should see increased tourism for a few months of the year but it will still be very weather dependent. I was to Inuvik once, we were stuck in Whitehorse for three days waiting for the truck convoy to form up and the weather to clear. Nobody in their right mind travels that road alone.

romore wrote: Nobody in their right mind travels that road alone.I knew there was something wrong with me... just never could figure out what it was!! We did it 'alone' in 2004. Just the truck. Left the fiver at the junction before heading up to the B & B in Inuvik. One flat tire on the way in.. saw the world's BIGGEST mosquitoes while changing it!! :E :R ;)

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SideHillSoup
Explorer
Oct 31, 2017
Ok ok ok...Sue..... if time permits we will stop by your cabin.
Not sure when as we plan on being in Stewart / Hyder for July 1 / July 4.... wife was raised in Stewart and time to go see her old haunts again....
so..... sometime in July is best guess date.
Soup.
sue_t
Explorer
Oct 17, 2017
Johnny G1 wrote:
Nice pic Sue, he look's happy, how close to home was this pic.

That was about 20 miles up the AK Hwy towards Haines Junction
Johnny_G1
Explorer
Oct 17, 2017
Nice pic Sue, he look's happy, how close to home was this pic.
sue_t
Explorer
Oct 16, 2017
SideHillSoup wrote:
We plan to drive By Sues House some time around the first week of July..... take our time to the Artic Ocean at Tuk.....and jump in for a dip.
Been planing ever since I read the new year round road would be completed this year.
Can't wait....
Soup.
PS: we are going....... " alone"

You're gonna just drive by and not stop for a visit?
GRRRRRR :B
lizzie
Explorer
Oct 16, 2017
We drove the Dempster to Inuvit summer of 2016, then flew to TuK. We could see the new road below. The amount of water (lakes, ponds, etc) was amazing but the road appeared to stable. If/when we return we look forward to driving it. lizzie
bob_nestor
Explorer III
Oct 16, 2017
romore wrote:
Nobody in their right mind travels that road alone.

Did the trip to Inuvit alone in my Jeep Wranger in 2014. Came over the Top of the World highway out of Alaska down to Dawson City then up the Dempster. Had my backpack in the Jeep and mostly tent camped at Provincial Parks along the way. No worse than doing the old Alcan in '67. No flat tires and no rocks in the windshield on either of those trips, 1967 or 2014.

They were talking about the new road and looking forward to it when I was in Inuvit. Guess I need to plan another trip up there so I can do the end of the road highway. :-)
time2roll
Nomad
Oct 16, 2017
Ok the race is on... who will get dibs of being first to post pictures to the top?
It will be a decade before I have the real time to do this. Could be even more open by then.
SideHillSoup
Explorer
Oct 16, 2017
We plan to drive By Sues House some time around the first week of July..... take our time to the Artic Ocean at Tuk.....and jump in for a dip.
Been planing ever since I read the new year round road would be completed this year.
Can't wait....
Soup.
PS: we are going....... " alone"
hone_eagle
Explorer
Oct 16, 2017
You guys talk like its open?
I was under the impression its brand new and next month was the opening ?
You_can_t_take_
Explorer
Oct 16, 2017
romore wrote:
Nobody in their right mind travels that road alone.

I knew there was something wrong with me... just never could figure out what it was!! We did it 'alone' in 2004. Just the truck. Left the fiver at the junction before heading up to the B & B in Inuvik. One flat tire on the way in.. saw the world's BIGGEST mosquitoes while changing it!! :E :R ;)