The Roads Over Time
Road surfaces have been, in stages, single track dirt, loose gravel, compressed gravel, and two or three generations of new pavement .
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The Signpost Forest at Watson Lake, Yukon Territory started when one soldier nailed up a sign with the miles to his home town. Then someone else did. Then...and the rest is history
Tanacross Airfield was critically important. A series of airfields were built at strategic points up the highway. Tanacross, inside Alaska, is on the part of the road that is closest to Russia, an ally in World War II. The US provided help to the Soviet Union by sending supplies airlifted from Tanacross to avoid the dangers of shipping in the Atlantic and the war in Europe. The field now sits in reserve, used as an operations base for aircraft to fight forest fires.
Contact Creek. Contact Creek is the place two Engineer regiments met in British Columbia, one coming from the north and one from the south met,. Today there is nothing along the road alerting drivers that it is an important place, just the name on the bridge. There is an old plaque at the back of a small gravel parking area which is so faded that it's hard to read. Just behind that is the dirt track down to the creek where they met.
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Road signs and monuments ...
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