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Alaska 2009
Trip report: click here.
To contact me while I’m on this trip email to redhawk800 at gmail.com
Basic trip plan:
Ride north on US Hwy 287 to it’s northern terminus near Choteau, Montana. Hwy 287 ran in front of our house until they moved the highway, bypassing Berthoud. The route will take me thru Yellowstone NP.
I’ll then cross into Canada and travel on the west side of the Rockies for a while before crossing the Continental Divide and taking the Icefields Parkway to Jasper.
From Jasper it’s west on the Yellowhead Highway to Prince George and then Kitwanga where I pick up the Cassier Highway.
North on the Cassier with side trips to Hyder, Alaska and Telegraph Creek before reaching Watson Lake and the famous Signpost Forest.
Then it is north on the Campbell Highway thru Ross River, ending at Carmacks where I’’ll get on the Klondike Highway to Dawson City. In Dawson I’ll be attending the Dust to Dawson (D2D) motorcycle rally. But I’m expecting to have time before D2D to make the excursion to Inuvik, NWT, via the Dempster Highway, which is the northern most point in Canada accessible by summer roads.
After D2D I’ll take the Top of the World Highway to Chicken, Alaska and the Taylor Hwy to Tok. Then it is the Alaska Hwy to Fairbanks.
Fairbanks is the departure point for the Dalton Hwy to Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay, the northern most road in North America. After returning to Fairbanks I’ll head south to Anchorage, stopping for some sightseeing around Denali NP.
Continuing south I’ll travel to Homer on the south end on the Kenai Peninsula and Seward. Then I’m headed “home”, but there is lots to see yet.
If I have time I’ll make side trips to Valdez and McCarthy, then join the Alaska Hwy to Haines Junction where I’ll travel south to Haines and visit the Hammer Museum. A ferry will transport me to Skagway where I’ll ride back to the Alaska Hwy.
I”ll probably take the Alaska Hwy for a ways just so I can say I’ve done it, and to take a road I haven’t traveled yet. I’ll cut over to Prince George and head south thru central British Columbia and central Washington. Before heading home I’ll visit a long time friend in Portland and check out the ironwork in Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood.
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