Dawson Creek BC -- Mile ZERO of the Alaska Hwy!

Plans -- written 4/25/09

We plan to spend 3 nights and 2 full days in Dawson Creek, British Columbia from Friday May 8th through Monday 5/11.

Dawson Creek is the official beginning of the trek to Alaska. It has a large milepost in the center of town---Milepost 0 of the Alaskan Highway. We will be sure to get a family photo standing next to this marker and post it here.

This will also be where we get an oil change, new air filter, and add extended towing mirrors and mud flaps to the truck. Then, Alaskan Highway here we come!

Review/Photos posted 5/11/09:

Here is a photo of our family taken by the ceremonial Mile 0 Marker by the Visitor's Centre in Dawson Creek. (We traded photographer duties with another family here at the same time as us to get one of the few FAMILY photos of us!)

This is a photo of the original Mile 0 marker one block away from the Visitor's Centre. The Highway originally went down the main street of town, now it follows the railroad tracks at the edge of town.

We indeed got the oil change and new air filter here in town. The only extended mirrors were in the next town down the highway, so we didn't pick them up til the day we left. Then Randy & Jakob didn't actually get them put on for another few days!

Alaska Highway House

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The Alaska Highway House is a place that all families should go to.

Inside there is a lot to learn about the building of the highway during world war II and other things about it. The highway covered a distance of approximately 1500 miles and was built in only nine months. It was really hard work. How the highway was built is one of the things you can learn there. you can go through the posters about it or you can just watch the movie that they have in the back corner of the museum...

I personally suggest that you read the posters and then watch the movie for a little more info.

Alaska Highway House -- Dawson Creek BC

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The BEST thing: the model of the Kiskitiwam wooden bridge being built. It was a really curved bridge and part of it looked like metal but it wasn’t. The next day we drove to see the actual bridge and walked on it!

The thing I wish we did NOT do: watch the movie. It was mostly people talking about the different people who were there and were building everything on the Alaska Highway.

Families should MAYBE come here…but do NOT watch the movie if you have kids!

Look at the pictures at the beginning---there is a jeep on a dirt road, an old car driving the road later, and an RV driving it like we are doing.