Welcome North! ExploreNorth is the world's largest Web site that focusses on travel in, and the history of, Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia. The site currently (October 2021) consists of over 24,000 files (approximately 4,300 pages) taking up 4.6 GB of space. As well, the companion ExploreNorth Blog has 850 posts with 14,108 photos.

    The thousands of pages of information rely heavily on photography, both historic and current, to share our passion for this region.

    The site is constantly being worked on, and the community and highway guides that are an important part of the site for many of our readers are the sections currently being re-designed and re-written.

This Week's Features:

Winter has solidly arrived - snow and aurora borealis
We can usually count on having snow that doesn't melt away by October 31st - this year it arrived almost a month early.

Fluorescent bill may be seabird's neon sign
The crested auklet's beak - the color of a tangerine - is so bright a scientist thinks it may be fluorescent.

Book Review: Sky Road North by Doug Bell
In 1996, the late Doug Bell (1926-2021) wrote a memoir, focusing largely on his Moose Jaw childhood and his life as an aeradio operator at remote Beatton River, BC.

Many Yukon steamers are not seaworthy, 1897
An article from the Elmira Gazette and Free Press (Elmira, New York), of October 14, 1897.

A blog flashback: Driving from Calgary to Whitehorse with the new Jeep
Originally posted on October, 2016 (26 photos).

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