Traveler's Guide: Yukon Roads and Towns
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- A guide to traveling Yukon's roads, including descriptions of road conditions, major towns, services, and the scenery and highlights along the way. To see individual road segments, check out the section listing below:
Introduction 0:00
Alaska Hwy 3:08
Klondike Hwy 7:50
Dempster Hwy 11:46
Top of the World Hwy 17:08
Robert Campbell Hwy 18:38
Canol Road 21:28
Other Roads 25:40
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We really appreciate all the work that went into this video. You gave the viewer a lot of valuable information that can be found nowhere else. Thank you.
I hope you're able to take advantage of the info and visit the Yukon yourself!
@@selkinshome Fantastic content Scott. I am travelling from New Zealand in June/July of 2023 to ride to Tuk and many of these surrounding roads. Very informative. Cheers.
@selkinshome Thank you for offering information with the viewer in mind rather than selfies on location. Thank you also for not treating the Yukon like it's just that thing on the way to seeing the ugly oil fields of Alaska. (The non oil field parts of Alaska are beautiful, but sadly the massive privately-owned and inaccessible oil fields are the destination, the start or end point of the PanAmerican highway and only access to the Arctic Ocean--if you can call a mandatory there-and-back bus tour "access.") I wish the PanAmerican had the alternate spiritual beginning or ending in Yukon & Northwest Territories--so people wanting to make the "PanAmerican" journey can choose Tuktoyaktuk and support a local indigenous community living in harmony with nature, and beautiful scenery and culture you can explore freely. I just watched a travel vlog from a lovely Texan couple (the adventures of A+K, if I recall correctly) and their experience of Tuktoyaktuk could not have been more different from what I saw in the Alaskan oil fields, which was just soul crushing. In Tuk it was like they'd be wandering around and the deputy mayor of Tuk would grab them to take them to see a pod of Beluga whales (no, autocorrect, I did not mean Belgian waffles...Although that does sound good.) Contrast that with an industrial nightmare, a war on nature, where the oilfield owners barely suffer you to take a strictly regulated bus to the water's edge and back. North America deserves a better choice to cap the PanAmerican journey, and after all, there's a choice at the southern end, a choice between Argentina and Chile, so why not the northern end as well?
I've saved this to re watch and take notes, so much good info to chart a course through and around Yukon! Thanks!
Wow! An accurate description. Thank you so much.
You only made one error. 'Enter by one route and leave by the other'. A standard Yukon joke is "I came for a quick visit thirty years ago".
Nice video!
I spent almost my entire early childhood growing up in a cabin that my dad built off the Alaska Highway at Morley Bay, seven miles south of Teslin. That was back in the 1970s before the highway was paved. We left the Yukon in 1980 when I was 13 years old and I haven't been back since. Many of the roads and towns in the video I experienced via my dad's gold colored,1965 Chevy pick up. Your video took me down memory lane.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, James! If you can track it down, you may enjoy documentaries from the 1960s by Gordon Eastman. Some beautiful images and experiences in the Canadian north from that time.
Excellent, excellent, informative video! Thanks for your work.
A truly excellent geographic and travel video on Yukon. A well organized and comprehensive presentation. Congratulations.
Very interesting. Drove all of the Yukon roads in 1992, traveled the whole of the ALCAN highway. Alone and camping in a tent. Best trip of my life.
Nice scenery, to the point, no babble. LOVED IT!!!👍🙋♀️🖖
Thanks!
Great presentation. I could easily plan an entire trip to the Yukon, there and back, with this one video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks. I hope you make that trip
Did it this summer. A transcendent experience.
Kluane was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
Thank you! Words cannot express enough. This, is the true Freedom!
I remember the yukon being the most beautiful place I've lived. Different color of ponds due to minerals was fascinating to see.
I was in Yukon awhile back. The locals corrected me for calling it 'The Yukon.' "It's Yukon, not The Yukon." I argued that it was the Yukon Territories. No deal. "where you from?" "i'm from B.C." I replied. "Its not called The B.C.is it?
U truly are great yes I have been able to see Yukon with your eyes I am 75 years old n since school I had a fascination for the tundra
Thanks for your note. I'm glad I was able to give you a glimpse.
A friend of mine forwarded this video to me. He and his good friend did a lot of motorcycle riding in the same area. He said your video was an excelent example of what you'd see. My other interest was that my father had been stationed in Alaska in the Army. He used to talk so fondly about That part of the world. I feel like I got a taste of it in your video. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the kind words. It's a remarkable place to experience.
Great Video....channell....no silly one-liners, no all about me's camera shots....subscribed.
Scott Extremely well done, I just found this and it will be very helpful for my trip to alaska in 2024...Thanks again
My wife and I were in Chicken in 2018. Very neat place. We panned for gold in the chicken creek. We had dinner in the chicken creek cafe. Guess what was on the menu? CHICKEN!!! It is my favorite place that I've been in Ak. Probably will never get back to Ak. but we have great memories of our trip there. Round trip from southern Michigan was 11,465 miles. We were gone 8 weeks.
Fascinating.
Very informative.
Very nicely done.
I’m a Faro boy. Great video, should have mentioned Faro’s many B&Bs and the golf course! It’s a great tourist destination.
I have always had a fascination with the Yukon. Now 65 yo, I doubt I will see it “with my own eyes”. Your “eyes” helped me get a taste of what I desire. Thank you.
I traveled the Alaska Highway in 1997. Much of the road was not paved. I remember well Watson Lake and Whitehorse. The first time I saw the Northern lights was at a lodge called Iron City. This video brought back wonderful memories of my adventure. Thank you. 😊
I really appreciate your honesty and beautiful voice ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks. Nice video. A couple of years ago, I drove up from Skagway to Whitehorse and spent the night. Beautiful scenery along the way.
Thank you! It’s so beautiful
eye candy well done thanks for sharing great video classssssssssssss
Great video and very inspiering, one wants to jump in the car and starts driving to the Yukon territory.
Lots of great information. Beautiful country.
Wow! This is about the most excellent travel TH-cam I’ve seen! Thanks!
Thanks!
Amazing shots, amazing work. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing Scott!
Glad to hear it's helpful!
Been there done that. A trip like this puts so much into perspective!
Thanks great information my wife and I are planning to drive to Alaska 2024 thanks again we live in BC Canada have done 49 States leaving the best for last. Can’t wait to see the most Beautiful place in the world 🙏🇨🇦🇺🇸
Have a wonderful trip!
Excellent guide, thank you so much!
Exceptional driving information. Thank you!
An excellent overview! Brought back lots of memories. Thanks!
My wife and I drove the Cambell Hwy. several years ago.......totally awesome! Tourist center in Watson Lake gave us really good maps and briefs as to what to look for along the way. From Watson Lake to Faro (250 miles.??) we saw no cars or trucks.........none.....zilch except for 3 trucks going the opposite direction. Stop in the middle of the road to take a pic......and the silence......wow.....not a cabin .......nothing in sight.....except for beautiful scenery...not even a jet's con trail in the sky. Thanks for the memories.
That doesn't surprise me. That stretch is the quietest road I've been on in the Yukon; possibly excepting the North Canol. Sounds like you had a great time!
A fantastic, highly informational video!
Thank you for the detailed descriptions
Hoping to travel some of these roads someday
This video is a perfect roadtrip video. Thank you very much, I want to come to Yukon even more now ;)
On my way to the Yukon tomorrow and found the info in your video very helpful info. Thank you
thanks for the detailed video guide!
Fanastic review, thanks for sharing.
Wonderful video and info. Thank you.
Thank you very much for sharing your video of Yukon....I enjoy watching your travel ..❤
Very informative and well presented.
Amazing video of what looks like a very special place! Good work!👍👍
THANK YOU FOR THIS FANTASTIC HELPFUL INFORMATION, AND PICTURES.
Scott you are amazing! Covered the essentials of Yukon in 25 Min.!!! Very informative
Thanks!
That was quite an extensive and beautiful ride you took us along. Thanks for all the info! Its a part of Canada I have not visited yet.
I applaud you again for this excellent informative video. I have ridden to most of these places.
This was a really informative video. Thanks for narrating most of my trip in 2011.
Thanks for the video and insights
Fantastic pics and commentary
Very nice to watch, thanks. I am going there in May.
Amazing informative video. Thank you for this
Thank you for all the detailed information! Definitely gives me insight on what I’m getting myself into on my upcoming trip
Great video.Thanks!
Excellent video/audio production!!! Very impressive!
Great presentation, thank you!
Great video, I appreciate the hard work you put into it. Thank you and greasy side down.
Awesome video ! I'm looking at heading to the Yukon for a 6 week trip to enjoy the back country :) Thanks for sharing,
Great video, awesome photography and drone footage. Some of these roads are on my bucket list. Thank you for the comprehensive coverage of the roads in the Yukon territory.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video, beautifully filmed and very informative.
Many thanks!
Nice work, thank you.
One of, if not the best travelogs ive seen. Thank you, your video has convinced me to explore more of the yukon as we travel to Alaska in 2025.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you sir for this valuable information. Haven't been to the Yukon since 1997, we are planning a summer to travel most of Yukon, you provided a wealth of information. Thanks again. Have a great day.
I just love the Yukon and Alaska. We had a blast there in 2017. Drove a 1994 F250 long bed 4x4 pulling a 25 ft 5th wheel. So many nice places to boondock
Very nice documentation. Did all these roads on several vacations in the '80s including the Nahanni. All with 4x4 camper trucks and the rental conditions were less restrictive then today. Did also the Cassiar back to B.C. Sweet memories.
This is THE BEST video of its kind I have EVER seen - for ANY destination - by any video producer. I've seen quite a bit of the Yukon on two trips each of multi weeks duration. And I've also done a fair bit of Yukon travel 'research'. You are incredibly brief and pithy and HIGHLY informative - accurately so from what I've seen. WOW! WOW! You must be an amazing person - no show boating - just the facts with great pictures. Really practical facts! Thanks for your GREAT work. In time I'll go through every one of your videos now that I've seen your work.
I'm humbled by your generous praise, Neil. Thank you.
@@selkinshome You are very welcome. I've now seen a lot of your other uploads and it seems this video is a distillation. That should not be a surprise. Most beautifully done.
Absolutely awesome post! Thank you so much.
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
Thanks for a great video, Scott. Great clarity and information. Really appreciate it!
My pleasure!
Would love to travel there ! Nice video !
Great Job! Thank you!
I like all the detail of the whole trip, and that’s some great scenery photography!
Thanks! The Yukon is one of those rare places where it's difficult to take bad pictures.
Amazing! Than you for the excellent information!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job. Much appreciated.
Thank you for a great, in-depth video. Tons of information. I am giving serious thought to making a move to Canada, and the Yukon is the place I would like to go. I can't get over the endless miles of untamed beauty. I could spend the rest of my life there, and die a happy man!
Excellent video, packed with useful info - thank you.
Glad you liked it, and I hope you get a chance to go up and explore for yourself.
super helpful with great, practical info. Thx!
You're welcome!
I’ve ridden most of the roads covered here and must admit that this is very acurate and informative video. Great job!
Thanks!
Bloody brilliant mate, it looks terrific.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a gem. Well done!
Thanks!
Accurate and descriptive, a great vid...
This was awesome. Thanks, Scott. I'm sure you had a blast. Alaska is beautiful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice and exhaustive travel guide .Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing video thanks
Awesome write up! Thanks for posting, I hope to ride some of these roads next year.
Don't put it off!
Great video. I did the Stewart/Cassier, Alaska, Top of the World, Dempster and Klondike Roads on a motorcycle. The Dempster was a favourite followed by Top of the World
Excellent content.
Absolutely fantastic coverage of this amazing place. Thank you for the thorough effort you put into this video!
Thanks for the kind words!
Great video.
The best I have seen for driving any roadway. .
Thanks!
Thanks for the generous comment, Greg.
Thanks. We are headed up there in august.
Thank you for all your hard work. I am heading to the Yukon in June and your information is fantastic. Well done!
Have a great trip!
Great informative video, extremely well done.
Thanks!
Aahh…lived in Yukon for forty years…very close to my heart…still love it! Excellent video.
Glad to know you enjoyed it!
Thank you ❤
Very well done.
Thanks for the great video we’re planning a trip to tuk in the next few years we now have a better idea what to expect north of Watson lake. Cheers
Useful and beautiful video Road Atlas for the Yukon.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really well done and highly informative.
Glad you found it useful!
Everyone seems to make kinda the same videos they stop at the same places mention the exact scenery other record for their videos.,thank you anyway for showing the experience.
This was an amazing video and very thorough on the route. Awesome job!
Glad you enjoyed it!