For my needs. River valleys and bliss 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 u. S. States. The magnificent nature around it has been preserved and it still feels as remote and lonely up here as it always has. Been. In 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
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because new. ends are added every day and some are quite a few of them from europe. leaving a sign here is a must for tourists including the montgomery s from oklahoma. watson lakes historically much more significant site is the old yukon air service hangar which is starting to collapse it bears silent witness to an immensely costly project whose effects were felt halfway around the world. historical photos in the small terminal next door to tell the story of a little known chapter of world war two. through the so-called lend lease program the americans helped the red army with aircraft and war material from nine hundred