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Overview map for routes A and B, 1938 [4]. Proposals for a highway to Alaska originated in the 1920s. Thomas MacDonald, director of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, dreamed of an international highway spanning the United States and Canada.
The Alcan–Beaver Creek Border Crossing (French: Poste frontalier d'Alcan–Beaver Creek) is a border crossing point between the United States and Canada.It is located on the historic Alaska Highway, which was built during World War II for the purpose of providing a road connection between the contiguous United States and Alaska through Canada.
Salmon River Road: 11.710: 18.845 Wharf near Canada–United States border in Hyder, Alaska: Canada–United States border near Premier, British Columbia (Granduc Road) — — Known as NFD 88 Road inside Tongass National Forest: Taylor Highway: 64: 103 AK-5 (Top of the World Highway) near Jack Wade: Front Street in Eagle — — Formerly part ...
Alaska Highway 98 on the American side joins Yukon Highway 2 on the Canadian side. The border is near the summit of White Pass on the Klondike Highway, where the elevation is 3,292 feet (1,003 m). The border divides Alaska Time Zone from Pacific Time Zone. The highway, completed in 1979, was initially seasonal, but has been open year-round ...
Canada City/Town Canada Road Name Province/ Territory United States City/Town United States Road Name State Notes Coordinates Stewart: Road to Salmon Glacier [Premier] British Columbia: Hyder: NF-88, Tongass National Forest Alaska Unstaffed and open. Canadian road ends at former Granduc Mine; U.S. road connects only to Canada.
The Klondike Highway winds in the state of Alaska for 24 km (15 miles), up through the White Pass in the Coast Mountains where it crosses the Canada–US border to British Columbia (BC) for 56 km (35 miles), then enters Yukon where it reaches the Alaska Highway near Whitehorse and shares a short section with that highway until north of Whitehorse, where it diverges once more to Dawson City.
The Trans-Canada Highway provides a link from Winnipeg and Thunder Bay to Alberta and the Alaska Highway, but it is not officially part of the Pan-American Highway. U.S. Route 81 is claimed to be part of the Pan American Highway from Wichita, Kansas, to Watertown, South Dakota, where it runs separately from Interstate 29.
Mile 8 - Mt. Emmerich and the Chilkat River Mile 46 in British Columbia The Chilkat Pass The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called Haines Road) is a highway that connects Haines, Alaska, in the United States, with Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, passing through the province of British Columbia.