Driving through Canada on the Cassiar Highway is a refreshingly beautiful alternative to the Alcan — remote, rugged and framed by dramatic scenery, writes outdoors columnist Alli Harvey.
Junction 37 Services marks the end of the Cassiar and the turnoff to the Alaska Highway in Yukon Territory. Author Alli Harvey fueled up for the umpteenth time on July 12, 2022. It’s the Cassiar Highway, a 450-mile lonely stretch that is one of two options to get to Alaska by road from the Lower 48, or bust.
I found myself a little disappointed in his conclusion. I’d started to wrap my mind around taking the Cassiar, in all of its remoteness and unknowns, for me. His advice, if I decided to go Cassiar, to take not one but two full cans of extra diesel with me just in case rang in my ears. I picked him up in Portland, Oregon, set a Milepost travel planner on the passenger’s side dashboard, and pointed our rig north to the border.
But that first afternoon and evening drive was a dream. We got a tour of verdant farms as far as the eye could see, framed with low-lying and lush mountains. We drove into more mountainous terrain, following a river that trailed farther and farther down as the winding roads climbed until we had dramatic views of a deep canyon far below. We stopped for the night in a golden-hued, arid-appearing region dotted with sagebrush on the hillsides that appeared folded in the lowering sun.
Evening at camp in British Columbia’s scenic Kinaskan Lake Provincial Park campground. After a long day’s drive, road trippers Alex Faille and author Alli Harvey couldn’t believe their good luck with finding this picturesque site along the Cassiar Highway on July 11, 2022. The following day our objective was to complete the Cassiar. The road turned more rough in sections where it was in the process of being repaved; some stretches were gravel and I slowed to a crawl. We heeded advice to diesel up at every opportunity, and I was always glad we did when the next stretch of highway turned out to be just as remote and long as the last.
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