An Explorer's Guide to the South Klondike Highway

Dateline: March 10, 2024.

Building the Skagway-Dawson Road
First promised in 1898, this highway joining the Alaskan coast with the Yukon interior finally became a reality 83 years later.

George A. Brackett's Wagon Road at Skaguay
A lengthy article from The Minneapolis Times of Monday Morning, January 3, 1898, was the first substantial article about the Brackett Road.

The White Pass Trail, February 1898
An article from The Morning Alaskan (Skaguay) of February 1, 1898 (Vol. 1 No. 1 of the newspaper).

From Skagway to Dawson By Automobile, 1913
A brief article from 'The Daily Alaskan' of August 7, 1913, tells of the dream.

Gov't Asks the White Pass For Brackett Road, 1913
A brief article from 'The Daily Alaskan' of August 20, 1913.

A road must be built from Dawson City to Skagway
The front page of The Weekly Star of April 10, 1914, had three articles about the Skagway Road.

Survey Completed from Skagway to the Summit
A lengthy article from The Weekly Star of July 17, 1914, describes the work of Alaska Road Commission surveyor L. T. Merry.

The Facts About The Skagway-Whitehorse Road
A fact sheet prepared on June 1, 1970 by Al Wright of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee, based on the D.P.W. (Canada) Study of November, 1966.

Klondike Highway, 1972
A large map and information from a 1972 Yukon tourism publication. At this time the highway only ran from Carcross to Dawson City.