Dalton Highway Article for TCers
Interesting article from a NYTimes writer. The comments at the end are equally interesting. I found driving the Dalton with my TC to be a great adventure, one that I did several times for fun and ...
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silversand wrote:
If we were to drive it, we'd rent a Jeep or buy a disposable pick-up truck to do so :B
Silver-
We drove to Coldfoot in our 33' class A and most of the rest of the way in our toad - a Wrangler. We had a great time and didn't break anything. We did accumulate quite a bit of mud though.
There were a lot of trailers pulled up there for the season - work camps essentially. There was a lot of road work going on.
We saw TCs, Cs, and a couple of As. All seemed to be having no real problems. We stayed at Yukon River Camp and Marion Creek Campground. Marion Creek was very nice, considering. Arctic Circle Campground not so much, so we passed it by.
I would have no problem doing it again, even in my class A. While the road may be worse than others, because there is so little traffic you can drive as slow or as fast as you wish, which is not true of the other roads we encountered in Alaska.
