We pulled into one a few days ago at dark and right after us a truck pulled in and spent the night also. There is a huge amount of truck traffic on the highway and they need a place to sleep so they all just pull over and sleep in the turnouts. Most of the pullouts had liter barrels and toilets were easy to find. It’s got trees and is quite a distance from the road (you can see it at the right). T his would be an ideal pullout to sleep in. But the majority are small and right on the road.
Some of them are near rivers and very pretty, others are at the end of a little road that goes away from the Alcan for a little bit and you have some privacy. Some of them are quite large and even have trees between them and the highway.
#BOONDOCKING IN ALASKA FREE#
On the Alaska Highway finding camping places is very easy! Along its entire length are many gravel pullouts and you are free to pull over and sleep there for the night. Whatever the reason, expect the last little bit to be slow going! Where do you camp in Canada? They claim that section has so much permafrost under it that they can’t keep it repaired, but I’ve always thought that since there were so few Canadians up there they just didn’t care and didn’t want to spend the money for Americans driving to Alaska. Without exception, every time I’ve driven it (about a dozen times) the last 200 miles or so from Haines Junction to the Alaska border were always in rough shape. Expect to hit stretches of road that are gravel while it is re-surfed.
So they have to replace it every few years. This pothole is about a foot deep and you can see the “paving” is not very thick. After the war was over it was turned over to the Canadians who own and operate it as part of their highway system. So the Alaska Highway officially begins at Dawson Creek and ends at Fairbanks. Then we could truck supplies to Fairbanks and then fly them from there to Russia. The only practical way to supply them was by building a highway to connect with existing highways at Dawson Creek, British Columbia all the way north to Fairbanks, Alaska. We needed Russia to keep the German army away from Europe so we could invade at D Day. It was impossible to get supplies to them from the west through Europe or from the south from the Pacific Ocean, so they had to come in from the east through Alaska. The Alaska Highway was built by the US Army during World War II as a supply line to get supplies to Russia which was our ally fighting the Germans. To start, here is a map of where we camped in the last week so you’ll have an overview:
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