Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta. The highway crosses the Peel and the Mackenzie rivers using a combination of seasonal ferry services and ice bridges.
The road begins at the end of the Dempster Highway in Inuvik, Northwest Territories and continues for 138 km (86 mi) north towards Tuktoyaktuk, a coastal community on the Arctic Ocean. The ITH includes eight bridges, and is a two-lane gravel road for its entirety. [16] On April 29, 2017, the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk ice road closed for the last time.
Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, an extension of the Dempster Highway, was an ice road on frozen Mackenzie River delta channels and the frozen Arctic Ocean between the Northwest Territories communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada. The road closed permanently on 29 April 2017 at the end of the 2016-2017 winter season. [1]
Highway Inuvik Access Road: 0.6: 0.37 Highway 8: Inuvik: Inuvik Access Road — — Highway 10: 133.6: 83.0 Highway 8 near Inuvik: Tuktoyaktuk: Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway: 2017: current Replaced the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Ice Road; construction began 2013, completed 2017 and opened in November. Highway Nahanni Butte Winter Road: 22.3: 13.9 Nahanni ...
Dempster Highway Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway: Waterways: Mackenzie River: Climate: Dfc: Website: www.inuvik.ca: Sources: Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, [3] Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, [6] Canada Flight Supplement [7] ^A 2018 figure based on Edmonton = 100 [8] ^B 2019 figure based on Yellowknife = 100 [8]
It is frequented by travellers headed for Inuvik or Tuktoyaktuk. The locality also has indigenous centres on site for nearby indigenous tribes. Eagle Plains serves as the terminus of a temporary winter road which is sometimes built to transport freight into the community of Old Crow, which is normally only accessible by air. [2] [3]
Bear, goose and duck are also hunted in the spring, but caribou hunting has recently been banned. Access to the area is more difficult in the summer after spring thaw, [9] but this is likely to change after the opening of the extension of the Dempster Highway to Tuktoyaktuk, [10] which passes near
This page was last edited on 11 February 2020, at 20:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.