LTRVD Episode 6 – The Dalton Highway in Alaska Part 1

In this episode we travel to America’s northernmost and most isolated road: the James Dalton Highway in northern Alaska.

I come to you from the comfort of my car, parked at my workplace parking lot. I try to take advantage of my downtime to record the podcast, as when I get home in the evening I am tired and life sometimes gets in the way.

The James Dalton Highway in Alaska

The main theme of this episode is a road trip we made on America’s northernmost road. Although it is not ideal for a big rig, I know of people who have done part of it towing a large 5th wheel. We also saw our share of class C, trailers, and camper vans.

I am not going to go into every detail of the trip on this post. Also I didn’t have time to cover the whole road trip in this episode. I will have a part two for sure. Here we are only going to cover Fairbanks and the trip from there to the halfway point: Coldfoot. In part two we are going to go fro Coldfoot all the way to the Arctic Ocean, so stay tuned for that.

Next, I am going to post some very useful links that I used to plan this trip, and some pictures of our epic journey in Alaska.

YouTube playlist of my trip

Wikitravel article
Wikipedia article
Alaska.org