Klondike Highway
The Klondike Highway is a highway that runs from the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada, linking the coastal town of Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon. Its route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.
Klondike Highway | ||||
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| Alaska Route 98 Yukon Highway 2 | ||||
Klondike Highway highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF, Yukon DOH&PW | ||||
| Length | 440.2 mi (708.4 km) AK-98: 14.4 mi (23.2 km) YT-2: 685.4 km (425.9 mi) | |||
| Component highways | Alaska Route 98 in Alaska and Yukon Highway 2 in both British Columbia and Yukon | |||
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| South end | Broadway in Skagway, AK | |||
| Hwy 8 in Carcross, YT Hwy 1 (Alaska Highway) in Carcross Cutoff, YT and Whitehorse, YT Hwy 4 in Carmacks, YT Hwy 11 in Stewart Crossing, YT Hwy 5 in near Dawson City, YT | ||||
| North end | To Hwy 9 at the Dawson City Ferry Landing in Dawson City, YT | |||
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| Country | United States | |||
| State | Alaska | |||
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In both British Columbia and Yukon, the highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2. In Alaska, the Highway is marked as Alaska Route 98 (as in "route of 1898"). Until 1978, the unopened section between the Yukon–BC border and Carcross had no official highway number, while the section north of Carcross to the Alaska Highway was Highway 5, and the section from Stewart Crossing to Dawson was Highway 3. The BC section is now maintained by the Yukon government as a natural extension of Highway 2.