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How is the Alcan in the month of April. I need to drive north and wondering what I am getting into?

Usually good but still subject to snow. Thaws should be taking most ice off the surface. Lotsa daylight!

Tourists are on the road yet.

Enjoy

OK, so I don't need to be too worried then.

The Alcan is a good road mostly paved. I've driven it many times and in all seasons without worry.
I don't care for January trips as it's a lot of dark hours. April should be good.....providing there's not
some weather event.

The Alcan has been straightened a lot over the decades and the really crooked part is an hour NW of
Fort Nelson but that 100 mile stretch also contains a great diversity of wildlife to enjoy. Watch out for bison
from Muncho to Watson lake.

The stretch from Kluane Lake to Beaver Creek is muskeg and permafrost so the surface will have
many frost heaves that require you slow down especially if pulling a trailer.

Towns are about 300 miles apart so fuel up frequently. Watson Lake has about 8 gas pumps but only two
are functional most times. Dining sux for the most part. Usually there's a decent breakfast at Toad River.

Decent rooms are available in Fort Nelson but Watson Lake is sketchy.

If you go downtown in Whitehorse watch out for the LBGQxyz folks.

Have a safe trip!

Oh......fuel is usually much cheaper in Tok than in Delta or Glenallen.

As Vern said, once outside ft Nelson headed to toad that road gets real curvy. When I went through in nov 2016 they were working on a section of it to straighten it out. Will also add toad river has great sandwiches for lunch.. Watson lake is an overpriced place, usually get fuel and hit the grocery store and roll out to Whitehorse.

Don't get the "chicken burger" at toad river.

Did it end of last march, got to the place April 9 I think maybe.

Since we hit ice in Ft Nelson and pulling a trailer and the studded tires I bought the rims didn't fit, we sat in town a few days to let it thaw. Other than that it was no big deal whatsoever. Ran up from TX over to NM, up through UT etc... crossed Alberta I don't recall where and headed on up.

Talked to a guy just came off the Cassiar and said same, a bit slow at times but no big deal.

PS if not for the heavy full slide in camper and pulling the airboat and it had a load in it, we would have just kept driving, slowly at times...

Get a cinnamon roll at Johnson's Crossing and you won't have to eat again until Fast Eddie's in Tok.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I just did it a month ago ...hains jct to tok is like riding a saw horse down a hill... the rest was good to go .

Typically one of the worst parts of the road IMO, unless there's road construction..

did they EVER finish the bridge on the Chistochina? I used to tell people it must be like "the Ghost and the Darkness" , where grizzlies instead of lions were eating the workers.

When did you leave Alaska 1979?

That is funny

Riding the TW 200?

No, but I'm hauling it up there!

Looks like I'll be headed north about the 15th or 16th

Wrenching for the summer again?

May-November

I drove it south in April, back in 1986! Total trip miles 3300, 3 1/2 days. Plowed and solid ice forever! Survived 3 days on a Fast Eddies pizza from Tok. The Mt. mcKinley.