DAY 56 – 58 ~ THE YUKON

Our three days through The Yukon is just driving 642 miles on the Alaska Highway into British Columbia.  We returned to the Alaska Highway at Tok, Alaska.  This is the 2^nd road that leads out and into Alaska.  Or you can call it the first road.  Let’s just say it’s the Southwestern route, where the Top of the World highway is the Northwest route.  Remember, there are only two roads going into or out of Alaska. 

  

We will be driving 385 miles of the Alaska Highway (from Tok to Whitehorse) that we skipped on the way in when we left the highway at Whitehorse to go to Dawson City.  So, now we can say that we traveled the whole 1,422 miles of the Alaska Highway!
  

We made a stop at the US – Canadian border to take pictures.  This is called the International Border so there are monuments there.  There is a bench with a line through it so you can sit in two countries at the same time. 

 Good-bye Alaska

 Hello Yukon

Sitting in the US and Canada at the same time. 

Standing in the US and Canada at the same time. 

  

Another awesome thing is that you can look up the hill and you can actually see a line cut through brush and trees showing the border.  On the other side, down the hill is the same thing.

We will not be exploring any places during our brief trip into The Yukon.  Our first stop will be Destruction Bay, where we stay at a nice, cute & peaceful RV park called Cottonwood RV Park.  The drive there was very picturesque with fields of purple flowers; Fireweed.  This is a small park that overlooks Kluane Lake.  

 Entrance into Cottonwood RV Park

On our way to the next stop we stopped at Haines Junction for gas.  Next to the gas station was a view point with a beautiful view of the Kluane Mountain Range.

Our 2^nd stop – a return visit to Whitehorse, and our last stop – another return visit to Watson Lake, are all overnight stops to break up the 642 miles we have to travel to get to British Columbia.  This part of the Alaska Highway actually hugs the border of The Yukon and British Columbia.

Tomorrow we leave the Alaska Highway and head south into British Columbia.  Nineteen days from HOME!