CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Whitehorse it runs 1323 km to Tok; allow about 18 h 12 of riding. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Canada into United States - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Whitehorse sits on the Yukon River in a broad valley under bare hills, and with some twenty-three thousand people it holds around three quarters of the territory's population, which gives you a sense of how empty the rest of it is. It is also where everything you need is available, fuel, repairs, food and beds, before the long road west. The Alaska Highway runs straight through town, and the town sits at about Mile 918 of that famous road, counted from Dawson Creek in British Columbia.
Read the complete Whitehorse write-up.
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Whitehorse is where the day begins. Next is Kluane Lake.
Kluane Lake is the biggest lake in the Yukon, a long cold sheet of water in the shadow of the Kluane Ranges, and its colour is a milky turquoise from glacial silt carried down by streams from the big ice fields to the west. It lies on the Alaska Highway, with the little settlements of Destruction Bay and Burwash Landing strung along its shore, and with the St Elias Mountains rising behind to heights that include Mount Logan, the highest peak in Canada at nearly six thousand metres, hidden behind other peaks and rarely visible from the road.
Read the complete Kluane Lake write-up.
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Kluane Lake comes up about 464 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tok Alaska.
Tok is the first real town you meet in Alaska after crossing the border at Beaver Creek, and for riders who have spent a long day on the Alaska Highway it is a small and welcome sight. About twelve hundred people live here, spread along the highway at the junction of the Alaska Highway and the Tok Cutoff, which leads south towards Glennallen and Anchorage. The place calls itself the sled dog capital of Alaska, and the dogs, kennels and mushing history are genuinely part of local life.
Read the complete Tok Alaska write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 1323 km.
Whitehorse → Kluane Lake is 464 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kluane Lake → Tok Alaska is 859 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.