Roll call Alaska 2017
I will try to get to Alaska next year, dreamed about it for years. Anyone else planing a trip for next year?
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TxGearhead wrote:
Or just take HWY4 from Watson Lake to Carmacks and on to Dawson.
The Campbell Highway between Watson Lake and Faro can be VERY rough and muddy. Most of it is not paved. It has been under construction for a few years, and those construction zones are ugly.
Fuel is available in Watson Lake, Ross River and Faro. The one gas station in Ross River is sometimes out of fuel and the one gas station in Faro is an unmanned station (credit or debit card only) and if the computer is having a hissy fit, then the pumps don't work. So if you do this route, plan to have enough fuel to get you from Watson Lake to Carmacks (at the Klondike Highway) just in case.
There is only one campground with services, in Faro. There are four government campgrounds along the way, with no services. The gov't campgrounds are nice - three of them are lakeside.
http://yukonsights.ca/CampbellHwy.html
A typical construction zone - Sept 2015
