The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called Haines Road ) is a highway that connects Haines, Alaska , in the United States , with Haines Junction, Yukon , Canada, passing through the province of British Columbia . It follows the route of the old Dalton Trail from the port of Haines inland for about 180 km (110 mi) to Klukshu, Yukon , and then continues to Haines Junction. The highway is about 244 km (152 mi) long, of which 72 km (45 mi) is in Alaska .
11-523: The highway was known as Yukon Highway 4 until 1978, when it was renumbered Highway 3. It has no number in British Columbia, but editions of The Milepost up to at least 2004 list it as Hwy 4 , a number actually in use on Vancouver Island . The Alaska section is part of Alaska Route 7 . The route was originally a trail used by Chilkat Tlingit traders, which eventually became the Dalton Trail . It
22-621: A guide about traveling along the Alaska Highway , often locally referred to as "The ALCAN". It has since expanded to cover all major highways in the northwest corner of North America , including the Alaska Marine Highway . It is updated annually. The Milepost is packaged and distributed like a book (2008 edition: ISBN 978-189215431-6 ), but like the Yellow Pages it includes paid advertising . The original 1949 edition
33-520: A time in the 1960s and 1970s, all vehicles traveling the highway were monitored on radio . Year-round access was not achieved until 1963. Complaints over the condition of the road, primarily in Alaska, led to the U.S. Congress -funded Shakwak reconstruction project. This project, covering the Haines Highway and the portion of the Alaska Highway from Haines Junction to the U.S. border, began in 1976 and
44-668: Is also available in an interactive digital format or download. Alaska magazine Alaska is a periodical devoted to news and discussion of issues and features of and from Alaska . Most of its readership consists of persons outside of Alaska who are interested in the Alaskan way of life. Alaska magazine was founded in 1935 in Ketchikan, Alaska , by Emery Fridolf Tobin (1895-1977) and J. Ray Roady (1907-1997). Tobin established himself as an opponent of Alaska statehood , although this may have been contradictory, given his ties to
55-587: The Democratic party and the fact that he and Roady served as State Representatives in 1959. Alaska magazine was originally titled the Alaska Sportsman Magazine , a name it retained until 1969. Another major difference is that the editorial and sales offices have moved to Alaska's economic center, the city of Anchorage . The magazine was sold to the partnership of fur trader Robert A. Henning and journalist Robert N. DeArmond in 1958. Henning helmed
66-532: The highways. Newer additions include special sections on selected areas popular with tourists, such as the Kenai Peninsula . It is also exhaustively cross-indexed and maps and charts are provided so that travelers can determine the total driving distance between any two points covered by the guide. Since 1997 The Milepost has been published by Morris Communications and currently shares publishing offices with Alaska magazine . Beginning in 2009, The Milepost
77-556: The magazine for nearly 30 years, mostly under the corporate name of Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, and was known as an enthusiastic promoter of Alaska. Henning, quoted in 1971 about the magazine, said "I'm my own best customer when it comes to selling Alaska. We haven't scratched the surface of the tourist business yet". As of 2021 , the magazine was owned by Morris Communications , a Georgia -based company which also publishes The Milepost travel guide. Morris acquired Alaska Magazine in 1995. This Alaska-related article
88-416: Was a mere 72 pages, by 2014 it had expanded to 752 pages, detailing every place a traveler might eat, sleep, or just pull off the road for a moment on all of the highways of northwestern North America. In addition to the paid ads, descriptions are provided of interesting hikes or side trip drives near the highways, campgrounds, and other public facilities, as well as short histories of most of the settlements on
99-516: Was built by the U.S. Army in 1943 as an alternate route from the Pacific Ocean to the Alaska Highway , in case the White Pass and Yukon Route railway from Skagway should be blocked. The total cost of the construction was US$ 13 million. In the first decades after the war , maintenance was spotty at best; the road was plagued with blizzards in winter and mudslides in summer, and for
110-532: Was mostly complete by the 1980s, but is still continuing, providing grade improvements, rerouting of dangerous sections, and paving. Responsibility for maintenance is currently shared between the Alaska and Yukon governments. The Milepost The Milepost is an extensive guide book covering Alaska , the Yukon , the Northwest Territories , and British Columbia . It was first published in 1949 as
121-462: Was used by some prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899; other mining kept the lower Dalton Trail active through the years following its establishment. The British Columbia provincial government converted its portion of the trail to a wagon road in 1909 when copper mining began at Copper Butte and Mt. Glave . In 1911, 30 tons of ore were shipped from the mines. The highway
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