Haines Junction & Beaver Creek, Yukon Canada Entering Alaska!
The story needing to be told is the road conditions. We fueled up in Haines Junction. The price was $1.12 per Liter or $4.08 per gallon less the difference in currency made the diesel fuel cost $3.06 per gallon U.S. Now the road conditions. Everyone we spoke to said watch out as you head up the Alaskan Highway from Haines Junction North to the border. Guess what? They were right. There is a lot of construction over 30 miles of on and off, one lane mud, dust and periods of pavement with dips and leftover frost heaves. Pot holes with no patch and pot holes with fresh sticking patch. It like driving the dodge-ems. The good news is there was not much traffic, so we could go slowly when the road was bad. Some of the trip was at 30 and 40 miles per hour. We saw campers hitting these obstacles hard and just flying over them. Our 5th Wheel weighs in at 16,000 pounds. That is 8-ton and does not take these dips well. The 5th wheel hitch moves in every direction, however, the chucking when the king pin hit the hitch on the dips can be awful. I have to look back and see if the trailer is still with us. Our equipment is great and we know if we take it easy we will not break everything.
Haines Junction is a town built along the Alaskan Highway with fuel and groceries. If you need more you have to go to Whitehorse. We traveled on slowly and got up to Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek is similar but each town is unique. We overnighted at the RV campground right as you enter the town. It was an easy place with water and power with a separate dump station. It was very quiet and we did get a good night’s rest. The next it was raining. After an hour or so it cleared. We packed up and got on the road. The road conditions were the same as the previous day. Since we had to drive slowly up the road, it took over 2 and a half hours to drive 110 miles. This averages out to 44 miles an hour.
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I am glad that I was on a big bus tour on those roads several years ago. I now remember that a rock punched a hole in the gas tank of the bus and we had to wait for another bus to come and get us before we could go on. I had forgotten about that until your experience reminded me. Otherwise we had no trouble. Also we had NO rain for a whole 2 weeks. Also I have a picture of me standing beside that picture and another of me with one foot in Alaska and the other foot in the Klondike. Oh, what beautiful scenery.!!!!!!!!!!!