Klondike Highway

Alaska Route 98 marker
Yukon Highway 2 marker
Klondike Highway
Alaska Route 98
Yukon Highway 2
Map
Klondike Highway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF, Yukon DOH&PW
Length440.2 mi[1] (708.4 km)
AK-98: 14.4 mi (23.2 km)
YT-2: 685.4 km (425.9 mi)
Component
highways
Alaska Route 98 in Alaska and Yukon Highway 2 in both British Columbia and Yukon
Major junctions
South endBroadway in Skagway, AK
Major intersections Hwy 8 in Carcross, YT
Hwy 1 (Alaska Highway) in Carcross Cutoff, YT and Whitehorse, YT
Hwy 4 in Carmacks, YT
Hwy 11 in Stewart Crossing, YT
Hwy 5 in near Dawson City, YT
North end To Hwy 9 at the Dawson City Ferry Landing in Dawson City, YT
Location
CountryUnited States
StateAlaska
Highway system
US 97 AK-1
Hwy 1 Hwy 3
Klondike Highway near Five Finger Rapids (Yukon River)
Fireweed is prominent in various locations on the Klondike Highway (this is in the vicinity of Summit Lake and Bernard Lake in British Columbia).
Five Finger Rapids seen from Klondike Highway
The bridge across the Yukon River at Carmacks
Store at the service station in Stewart Crossing

The Klondike Highway is a highway that runs from the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada, linking the coastal town of Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon. Its route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.

In both British Columbia and Yukon, the highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2. In Alaska, the Highway is marked as Alaska Route 98 (as in "route of 1898").[2] Until 1978, the unopened section between the Yukon–BC border and Carcross had no official highway number, while the section north of Carcross to the Alaska Highway was Highway 5, and the section from Stewart Crossing to Dawson was Highway 3. The BC section is now maintained by the Yukon government as a natural extension of Highway 2.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference gmap was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ An illustrated mile-by-mile guide by ExploreNorth