Wide River Valleys and loose forests and deserted landscapes the alaska highway lives up to the legend even today. The wilderness starts at the roadside. The u. S. Army built the highway in World War Two and its still the only land connection between alaska and the other us states. The magnificent nature around it has been preserved and it still feels as remote and lonely up here as it always has. In one thousand nine hundred forty two the small town of dawson creek in canada was made the starting point of the alaska highway. This is where the railroad ended and the u. S. Army wanted to create a link from there through Northern Canada to alaska to prepare for any attack by the japanese. The new wilderness road was to be completed within months and unbelievable fifteen hundred miles long about twenty four hundred kilometers in america its opening was celebrated in various propaganda films with canada and the United States War Department decided to build a military highway from rio grand