Like a lot of travel obsessions, it began with a map and a hazy idea of what we might see and encounter. I wanted to explore parts of the 1,387-mile-long Alaska Highway, a.k.a. the Alcan ...

If a gifted palm reader scrutinized a highway map, she could read our past ... The creation of the ALCAN Highway meant cutting through rugged Canadian Rockies in bug-infested, mud-washed summer ...

Have you ever driven the Alcan — or just wished you could? The 1,520-mile road through Canada and Alaska is a magnet for adventurous travelers. There are some hardships: rough pavement ...

Joe Adrian animatedly shares recollections of his father's military service -- a unique period that included participation in the construction of the Alaska Highway and the creation of maps for Gen.

Less a road movie than a trying-to-get-on-the-road movie, “Alcan Highway” is a rustic ... an affordable way to make the more-than-3,000-mile trip from Alaska to Vancouver, and somehow locates ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Alcan Highway, and the U.S. State ... frontier territory in many areas.” The 1,500-mile highway starts in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and runs ...

And Josh had, unknowingly, brought them a special gift, an early photograph showing that Charlie Lake was designated by the U.S. Army as Mile Zero of the Alcan Highway. Apparently there is a ...

First called the “Defense Highway to Alaska” and then the “AlCan Highway,” today it’s called the Alaska Highway. Originally 1,800 miles long, it’s been shortened to less than 1,500 ...

The Canadian government has awarded a $3.9 million construction contract to improve safety in British Columbia at the Pink Mountain intersection on the Alaska Highway, a remote 1,387-mile-long ...