Canada is crisscrossed by a number of highways which in addition to having road numbers, are also named and we spent the next couple of weeks driving a few of them.

We started on the Cassiar Highway (BC Highway 37), a 450 mile long road runing in a northerly direction from Kitwanga, British Columbia, to the Alaska Highway (BC 1) in Yukon.  

A side trip from this road was along BC Highway 37A to Seward where we dipped briefly into Alaska to get to the Salmon Glacier, which is actually back in BC. 

We were now really starting to see the beauty of Canada; mountains, lakes and our first bears!

After the Cassiar we joined the Alaska Highway, starting at the Sign Forest in Watson Lake, following it to Whitehorse before turning south again along the South Klondike Highway (BC 2) and back again into Alaska to pick up a ferry in Skagway for Haines.  We will eventually drive most of this highway.

We then headed north again on the Haines Highway (BC 3, Route 7 in Alaska) to rejoin the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction.

After several days on the road and a couple of border crossings we parked up by Kluane Lake before moving on to Alaska to explore it properly.

Motorhoming 

With diesel averaging around £1.10 a litre on this section and plenty of quiet rest areas which permit overnight parking, being on the road is fairly cheap.  Food however, is  another matter especially when having to shop in the smaller towns so we try to stock up with basics when we find a Walmart.  We cook most days in the van and prefer fresh, non-processed foods so this is one of our biggest daily costs after diesel.

Roads are wide and easy to drive and apart from where there are roadworks, we are seeing relatively little traffic. There are quite a few European vehicles here ranging from camper vans to huge expedition trucks; we’ve seen a few other Hymers too! 

We’re using iOverlander on a daily basis to find park ups, water, dumps, LPG (propane) and laundromats.