steiners-north-to-alaska

Anchorage doesn't really offer any special sights. Here, too, the Good Friday earthquake of 1964 and the subsequent tsunami more than 65 m high destroyed practically the entire...

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After Valdez had already been quite rainy, the wet weather stayed with us. First, the 'Alaska Marine Highway' ferry takes us through the Prince William Sound to Whittier, a...

Valdez welcomes us with rain and throughout our stay there will be mostly rain and no sun. In the late 19th century, a port for gold prospectors pushing into Alaska and using...

Von Tok geht es jetzt eindeutig nach Süden – mit Sidesteps. Am Squirrel Creek State Campground machen wir Pause inmitten der Natur, am angrenzenden See können wir zwar einen...

After the ferry across the Yukon, we first drive about 130 km along the 'Top of the World' highway, which is not paved, but very easy to drive on. You have beautiful views of...

DAWSON CITY - Gold Rush Town On the Klondike Highway with its many construction sites, where you have to wait patiently for the 'Pilot Car' and then follow it, we are heading...

Minto Landing

We start in Whitehorse - the capital of Canada's Yukon Territories. The Yukon covers an area of 482,000 km², which is about 5.7 times the area of Austria, but has only about...

Haines Junction Airport

On the Alaska Highway, we initially drive east - the 'wrong direction'. Our destination is Watson Lake, where we can refuel and shop. In Canada, the price of gasoline is now...

After the “sidestep” to Stewart & Hyder, we are heading further north on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway towards the Yukon. The larger part of the approximately 800 km long HWY...

Now heading north on Highway 37. The landscape is best described as 'unspectacular' at first, the highway is now paved throughout. Only sometimes construction sites with longer...

Soon after starting in Jasper heading west, we reach Yellowhead Pass, not only the border between the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, but also the time zone boundary...

Jasper

The almost 300 km long 'Icefields Parkway' leads through the two national parks from Banff to Jasper. There are plenty of mountains, glaciers, lakes and spectacular scenery to...

After generally being advised not to drive to the destinations in Banff National Park with your own car (some parking lots are said to be closed due to overcrowding as early as...

From Washington Pass, we drive downhill and soon through an agriculturally dominated landscape towards the Canadian border at Osoyoos. Since we have dutifully filled the...

Fortunately, we are not affected by the current turbulence of airports and airlines. Graz - Frankfurt was punctual and the more than 10-hour flight from Frankfurt to Seattle was...

After taking over the truck camper in Seattle, first we drive through the North Cascade National Park in the state of Washington to Canada and the Okanagan Valley in British...