Driving the ALASKA HIGHWAY from Dawson Creek, BC to the Yukon!

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Published 2022-07-04
We made it onto the Alaska Highway! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

The Alaska Highway runs around 1,400 miles from Dawson Creek in British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska, going through the Yukon along the way. We spent a total of a week driving this road, with 3 days of it in British Columbia, which has tons of stunning views, fun stops, hikes, a hot spring, wildlife, and so much more!

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⌚Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:30 We’re at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway!
00:55 Coffee and breakfast at beans&barley in Dawson Creek
02:10 History of the Alaska Highway
03:22 Knocking out some van life chores before hitting the road
04:49 We’re on the Alaska Highway! (+ plan for the day)
07:10 We saw a bear!
07:40 Our home for the night
08:10 Our plan for day 2 of the Alaska Highway
08:48 Trying cinnamon buns at Tetsa River Lodge
12:01 Seeing caribou for the first time ever!
12:19 Hiking the Flower Springs Lake Trail at Stone Mountain Provincial Park
18:28 Summit Lake at Stone Mountain Provincial Park
18:44 Driving to Muncho Lake
19:34 Quick note about cell service on the Alaska Highway
20:16 Freaking about how AWESOME the Alaska Highway is!
21:30 Camping at the MacDonald Campground at Muncho Lake
23:43 Our plan for day 3 of the Alaska Highway
24:40 Seeing bison!
25:12 Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park
28:43 Smith River Falls
30:00 Whirlpool Canyon
31:53 We made it to the Yukon!
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📍Locations in this vlog
beans&barley: goo.gl/maps/DqYskcFRXH9RWomK9?entry=yt
Water fill up in Dawson Creek: goo.gl/maps/RMX4D8v3uhekeQXt6?entry=yt
KM 536 Rest Area: goo.gl/maps/8gyeMqGkTXNE1q9a7?entry=yt
Tetsa River Lodge: goo.gl/maps/FRRuJBtKA3xQqzvaA?entry=yt
Flower Springs Lake Trail at Stone Mountain Provincial Park: www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/british-columbia/fl…
Summit Lake: goo.gl/maps/LXgbuL7MEjxXXAkb6?entry=yt
MacDonald Campground at Muncho Lake: goo.gl/maps/kcMcU2iUPKW4BNCB7?entry=yt
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park: goo.gl/maps/hu6Jgp5YYjGss6iE9?entry=yt
Smith River Falls: goo.gl/maps/s2G9nDDfnZi2ziTv8?entry=yt
Whirlpool Canyon: goo.gl/maps/aehp4y7vZh1FDjJaA?entry=yt
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All Comments (21)
  • @richardbeee
    Every time a bug gets smashed on your wind shield just tell it: I bet you don't have the guts to do that again. Yee-Haa!! North to Alaska!
  • @1958zed
    Thanks for bringing back some fond memories of my greatest road trip ever. i drove from Chicago to Fairbanks in 1993, leaving late in the season on Aug. 6th. I headed up through Minneapolis, North Dakota, Glacier/Waterton NP, Banff, Jasper, and Hinton. (The Columbia Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff has some of the most stunning mountain scenery in all of North America—it's a "must see!") It was good to see Muncho Lake and Liard Hot Springs again. I detoured into Skagway to ride the White Pass & Yukon Railroad and then headed to Fairbanks. I spent about 5 days in and around Denali National Park and then down to Anchorage to stay with friends. I made it to Homer and Wrangell-St. Elias NP. My friends won the lottery to drive your personal vehicle all the way to Wonder Lake in Denali NP on the last day the park was open: Sept. 13th and they gave the ticket to me to use because they couldn't. Amazing. It was late in the season, and I knew I had to book it south quickly to avoid snow. Between Hinton and Jasper, it snowed quite a bit but melted the next day. I returned to Chicago by way of Vancouver, BC; San Diego, CA; New Orleans, LA; Mobile, AL; and Memphis, TN. Al totaled, I was gone 70 days and drove 18,168 miles. I'd do it again tomorrow (except, perhaps, the camping in a tent every night part. 😂) The only issue I had with my vehicle on the Alaska Highway was a burned out headlight from the requirement to have you lights on at all times. Safe travels.
  • Beautiful scenery; the mountains; lakes, waterfalls, and the cinnamon roll, or loaf. Just fantastic. Glad you miss the problems on the highway 😎😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌
  • @Cosmicat01
    Dawson creek fella here. Friends with the owner of beans and barley and even worked there a little once. Great place and I'm glad you enjoyed our small city 😀
  • As a couple from Alabama. We do not care what you are wearing. Just a word of encouragement to the both of you. This is our favorite YouTube channel. Please don't let stupid comments get you down. We love every minute of your videos. We do worry about your safety when we don't hear from yall. You both are awesome in our book. Keep up the good work
  • 10 years ago i did Anchorage to Fairbanks.......Alaskan Highways are truly Engineering Marvel.
  • @mayson212
    As someone who lives in Dawson Creek, this was so cool to watch. Can confirm, lots of bugs in the town. Windshields be looking like that commonly 😅
  • @Hectorien
    Can you make these videos an hour long? I'm enjoying living vicariously through your adventures and 33 minutes is not long enough! I'll take all the B roll as filler. Also, how have you guys not made any kind of reference to Dawson's Creek the TV show?
  • @eekdageek
    Absolutely gorgeous nature and wildlife!! So interesting to see literally the road less traveled!! Thank you for showing us!!
  • Thank you for stopping to show us the nature along the way. I’ve never seen caribou before! The hot springs scene was like the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. 😂
  • @anydaynow7755
    I was thinking of you guys the other day when I heard about the Alaska Highway collapse. You must have just missed that! I love seeing all the wildlife!
  • CAN’T STOP SMILING!!!! These vlogs keep getting better and better as you get closer and closer! I’m at a loss for words…freaking awesome vlog! This has got to be one the absolutely most amazing road trips anywhere on earth! WOW!!! I’m still drooling over the cinnamon buns. The word “pillowy” was used…hot springs, all sorts of wildlife and crazy Mountain View’s…I mean c’mon! This brought me so much happiness! You’re THE best!!!!
  • @AfterMath342
    Great video. You do a great job highlighting your adventures and the beauty of BC. I taught school at Toad River (Mile 422) for a year and 2 more years in Ft. Nelson in the early-mid-90s. Travelling back and forth to FN, my teaching partner and I would often be stopped and blocked on the highway by a herd of hundreds of caribou. (Literally, like the scene from Polar Express!) No shortage of wildlife and northern lights. I'm surprised you didn't see any moose, deer, wolves, elk, etc. It's hard to believe but Stone Mountain is even more amazing on a bright and sunny day and video just isn't able to capture the breath-taking blue of Muncho Lake. The locals and truckers on the highway are some of the best people you'll meet.
  • Absolutely Beautiful loved the scenery and bears.I thought it was cool they had a hot springs.The food looked delicious.
  • @Kind_Traditions
    Hey guys, your taco 🌮 troll here! We left Tucson on May 1 and hit Dawson Creek today. Thank you for the inspiration! ALCAN starts tomorrow. I seem to recall it's gets harder to find good tacos until we get to Homer...you two are awesome..keep it up!
  • It's so amazing....the scenery is really very mesmerizing... Beautiful lake...the mountains are so enchanting... It's a very worthy place to visit...
  • @onmission316
    Made that journey in 1974 when the entire highway was dirt. I spent the summer in Soldatna and the Keni. Beautiful trip.
  • The big dig in Boston took 20+ year, basically just a tunnel. Those soldiers and civilians did a great job.
  • Wow, gorgeous territory, raging rivers, hot springs, wild life, it's all there!!