Veebyes
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Consider alternate routes. Good one.
Once north of Edmonton any alternate routes are rapidly reduced down to Alaska Highway or nothing.
North of Watson Lake the Alaska Highway is it, unless you want to consider the Campbell Highway, which is 300 miles of mostly gravel and only two places for fuel on a very very little used road. We did it last month.
Doing the Alaska Highway is not going to the moon but it is not like using some of the little used roads of the lower 48 either where you are never far from fuel or a cell signal.
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enblethen wrote:If you want to go to the Artic Circle and maybe Artic Ocean, i would think about the Dalton Hwy.
Dempster (in Canada) is a great option:
- Not heavily commercialized so truck traffic is much less. The Dalton (Alaska) is all about servicing the oil companies with lots of truck traffic.
- You can actually drive to the Arctic Ocean on the Dempster. On the Dalton (Alaska), you get stopped about 10miles short as it's all owned by the oil companies. It is possible to book a tour in Alaska but not drive to the ocean while you can camp on the ocean in Canada.
Plus it pushes you to drive the Top of the World Highway (Tok to Dawson City) which is awesome.
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SideHillSoup
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Make sure you have a few hundred dollars Canadian cash in your pocket.
We always travel with enough cash for at least a full tank of fuel that’s about $250 plus another $250 for campgrounds, sani dumps etc..
And last week it all paid off for us:
Now we were lucky we only stopped to get a bag of ice, however the the Petro Canada website was hacked and no petro Canada gas station pumps or stations would take credit cards at all, cash only for fuel.
We were on Hwy 37 at Meziadin Jct Gas Station and there were a lot of rigs that were too low on fuel to continue their trip. The only gas station is Stewart is also a Petro Canada station.
The system is still having issues today, but you can pay inside with a credit card, just not at the pumps.
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thomas201
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What Soup said about some cash. The isolated Yukon campground have a cash box to pay and no staff. It includes firewood, so is a good price. Glad we brought a couple hundred Canadian.
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enblethen
Moses Lake, WA
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Easy way to get cash is at ATM. When returning to lower 48, total up left over Canadian dollars and put in your fuel tank.
Make sure you have small bills, Loonies and toonies!
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