With mountains, barren grounds, stunted forests, unbelievable skies, thousands of freshwater lakes and rivers, this vast land combines to create a tremendously humbling experience. The Alaskan Highway Starting in Dawson Creek it passes through Watson Lake , Whitehorse , Haines Junction and Beaver Creek , on its way to Fairbanks, Alaska . It is a scenic, busy highway full of RV's in summer. There is good fishing and hiking. The wildlife is in abundance, moose, thousands of Dail sheep, grizzly bears and caribou, also the peregrine falcon and eagles as well as 150 varieties of birds.
Hikers beware of bears.
Meaning old crow flats, became a national park in 1993, in spring each year a herd of caribou follow a well worn route across the plains to their calving grounds. They are protected in Canada in Ivvavik National Park but where they extend into Alaska and come under USA law, there is pressure fron the oil companies to open them up for exploration. There is no road access, flights on a regional airline plane will get you there. Watson Lake Named after a British trapper and the 'Gateway to the Yukon', Watson Lake is the first town in the territory as you head northwest on the Alaskan Highway from British Columbia . Most famous for its Signpost Forest , the original signpost of Danville, Illinois, was erected by a soldier, Carl Lindlay, who was working on the construction of the highway, he got homesick and put up the sign, other people added their own and there are now over 20,000.