Dalton Highway Article for TCers

[Geewizard]

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 for work.

Driving the Dalton Highway, North America's loneliest road

[c_traveler2]

My DW and I spent 34 days in Alaska this passed summer that included driving the "Haul Road" to Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay. During the summer months it's not as lonely as one would believe on that road with plenty of RV's, motorcyclists, truckers,hitchhikers and pipeline security is never more than day apart during the summer months

Here's a few photo from the Haul Road

[cewillis]

Now if you want adventure....You want the Dempster Highway!!!

I thought that was even easier - if anything. At least until I got to some incompetent Peel River ferry operation.

[Rbertalotto]

I did it on a motorcycle a few years ago. Read my heart stopping adventure here:

www.motoalaska.blogspot.com

The "Haul Road" as it is called is really quite easy. Lots of traffic and folks to help if you get in trouble.

Now if you want adventure....You want the Dempster Highway!!!

http://www.explorenorth.com/library/roads/dempster.html

[cewillis]

There was nothing to it -- easy drive. At least, waaaay back in 2005.

[dahkota]

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.

[silversand]

Sounds quite wild indeed! Over 400 miles of Dalton, and around ~200 miles of totally unserviced stretch :E

If we were to drive it, we'd rent a Jeep or buy a disposable pick-up truck to do so :B

Thanks for the link to the great article!

Silver-