The Dempster Highway: Journey to the Arctic Circle

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The Dempster Highway: Journey to the Arctic Circle | Three days of driving in the Yukon, from Dawson City to the Northwest Territories border.

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Transcript:

The Dempster Highway is 740 kilometres of unpaved road running through Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, to the Arctic Circle. But this story begins in Mayo, Yukon, where we started our journey north.

Five hours later, and we were in Dawson City, where we spent two nights at the Triple J Hotel. The Dempster starts about 40 kilometres outside of Dawson. On Wednesday morning, we packed up our trucks, filled up the tank, and began our journey along the Dempster Highway.

One of the incredible parts of this drive was that we were accompanied by Sandra MacDougall, Managing Engineer for the Dempster Highway. Sandra gave us a little insight on highway safety along the Dempster.

As we left Tombstone Territorial Park, we drove into a thunderstorm — which was pretty cool, since apparently it’s not so common to see lightning along the Dempster. (I didn’t film any lightning strikes so you’ll have to take my word on this one.)

Another two hours of poor visibility, and plenty of stops along the highway, and we made it to Eagle Plains, which sits about halfway between the start of the Dempster Highway and Inuvik, Northwest Territories. We were staying two nights in the Eagle Plains Hotel.

After our first night at the Eagle Plains Hotel, we packed up our gear for another day of travel, and filled up the tank, again. Plus, we got a jeep tour that really reignited my desire for van life. And then we were back on the road. We were travelling North, to the Arctic Circle, which lies at the 66th parallel North. From this latitude, the sun never sets at the summer solstice, and it never rises at the winter solstice.

From the Arctic Circle, we continued our route to the Northwest Territories border. On the way, we stopped in Hurricane Alley, which Trevor can explain best. The drive was incredible. It was geography like I had never seen before. Oftentimes, it felt like we were standing in front of a green screen — it was too epic to be real. Once we reached the Northwest Territories border, we turned back to the hotel. In total, we were on the road that day for nine hours.
On our final day of travel, we drove from Eagle Plains to Mayo, where we spent one last night before leaving for Whitehorse. All of my camera gear is now covered in road dust, but it was worth it. It was a truly incredible trip. Thank you all for watching.

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