The Alaska highway, route taken on the way up. Day 1 from Grand Junction to Butte, MT was 726 miles of freeway driving. Day 2 to Fox Creek, went through Calgary and Edmonton 786 miles, mostly freeway and highway. Day 3 was on the AlCan, now called the Alaska highway, 659 miles to Toad River near the Yukon and BC border, moslty paved, some gravel. Day 4 went through Watson Lake and Whitehorse to Beaver Creek near the Alaska border, 719 miles of rough pavement and gravel. Day 5 would have put us into Fairbanks, but as we were early (to meet Dawn at the Fairbanks airport), we decided to take a side trip from Tok down to Anchorage and up to the Denali highway at Cantwell. 565 miles of pavement and gravel. Day 6 was along the Denali highway to Paxson, then up to Fairbanks and out to Circle on the Yukon River. 445 miles of mostly gravel and dirt roads. Day 7 took us back on track, and up the Dalton haul road across the arctic circle to Galbraith Lake on the North Slope. 490 miles of rough crushed rock haul road. Day 8 found us at our destination, the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay. 150 miles of rough crushed rock. Total miles to this point, 4,450. We spent the day touring around Deadhorse and Prudhoe, and left the next morning back to Fairbanks.