The Alaskan Highway is great. We cruised right along until Destruction Bay north of Haines Junction. From Destruction Bay to Beaver Creek it is pretty much just gravel. If you go early in the season as we did, no repairs had been made yet. It was very very bad. We drove 20 mph for 80 miles and still sheared two bolts on our sway bar. People flew by us bouncing madly. One Class A towing a pickup hit a frost heave so hard it broke his tow bar. The truck went over the bank and he kept on going. We wondered what he thought when he stopped that night. We flashed the lights trying to get his attention but he was gone.
Later in the summer, August, that section is all filled and graded. It was very good traveling then. Flying rocks from passing vehicles are a hazard. We had a large one hit our windshield.
My son towed a enclosed trailer up there in February. The rocks on the road beat the daylights out of the front of the trailer. I am assuming the rocks were from material that was spread on the road because the road was ice and snow covered all the way. He wished he had some diamond plate on the lower two feet of the trailer front. You might want to be sure to have some good mud flaps or a rock guard on the front of the trailer. Our motorhome had a mud flap across the whole rear of the vehicle and we had no damage to the toad.
Have fun. It is a great trip. Try the Cassier Highway coming back down. You pick it up near Watson Lake. Really remote but beautiful and lots of bears. Pick up a Milepost. Great and valueable info in that.
