When we found out about this road, we knew we just had to drive it!
The Dempster Highway
Start point: 39 km/24 miles from Dawson City, YT
End point: Inuvik, NWT Length: 736 km / 457 miles Fuel: (distance from Dempster junction, milepost)
The Dempster highway is an all-gravel highway traversing 736Km of arctic landscape with very limited services at Eagle Plains and Fort McPherson. The road has two free ferry river crossings (Peel River & Mackenzie River) and terminates at the northern town of Inuvik.
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Tombstone Territorial Park
At the Visitors Center we were also loaned a guide book that would share information about the road and points of interest, from here all the way to Inuvik. This guide was awesome, and we would HIGHLY recommend you read through it before or during your trip as you drive.
You can find it online FREE here (download to have offline): >>> The DEMPSTER HIGHWAY Travelogue |
Red Creek
Eagle Plains
Richardson Mountains & the Northwest Territories
Mackenzie River Lowlands
Inuvik
Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway
We Made It! Tuktoyaktuk
Land of the Pingos
Arctic Ocean Plunge
Yes, it was chilly. But we had a toasty warm RV and a long hot shower waiting for us, thanks to our Truma appliances! We had cranked the VarioHeat furnace up to 79 degrees and the AquaGo water heater was set to 'Comfort' mode (check out Why We Love Our Truma AquaGo for more details) so we had as much hot water as we wanted (after this we drove back to Inuvik where we could dump and refill our tanks). These things definitely helped us make the plunge!
Boondocking Along the Dempster
As the pinnacle and centerpiece of our northern travels so far, we exited the Dempster Highway after nearly three weeks of touring feeling exuberant and humbled by the experience.
We were so pleased that our planning and vehicle build had lived up to and exceeded our hopes and expectations in delivering us back to the start safe and sound, with memories that would last a lifetime! |